SMALL GAME III 



sail right down upon the gaggle or whatever 

 it may be. It might be even imperative 

 to drift upon the birds, but under no cir- 

 cumstances should they be approached by 

 tacking or any similar zig-zag course. As 

 fowl require the wind against them as a 

 fulcrum to raise them from the water, so 

 it naturally follows that when you are able 

 to sail "upon" the birds they will have 

 to pass your boat, either to the right or to 

 the left. 



Nothing is here said of punts or swivel- 

 guns, for the Yangtze is too often too rough 

 to allow of the use of the one, while the 

 discharge of a pound of lead into the brown 

 of a company of birds, when the few only 

 are killed and the many wounded, is a 

 barbarity which happily may not be ex- 

 pected to be tolerated much longer. 



But it may be that the shooter desires a 

 shore experience. The boat will then land 

 him at the mouth at one of the many little 

 intersecting creeks, in which the islands 

 abound,up which he may go, if so disposed, 

 in the inevitable attendant of these larger 

 boats, a small dingy, or at once make his 

 way through grass, and swamp and feeds 

 until he "happen " upon the unsuspecting 



