fall at a shot that a Grey Goose would laugh at. It 
is advisable, therefore, to have your cartridges 
loaded with two or three sizes of shot. 
Many sportsmen when strolling out for “a 
crack at Ducks,’’ or other casual sport, dispense with 
the cartridge bag, and stow away the cartridges in 
their pockets, which is a very convenient plan, pro- 
vided that the rain keeps off. It is most annoying, 
however, to find after a shower that the cartridges in 
your pockets have bulged, and will not fit in the 
gun—a State of affairs which, I regret to say, has 
often given rise to much profanity among careless 
sportsmen! Therefore if you intend going far afield 
take a waterproof cartridge bag with you. 
In the matter of clothes, the collector should 
see that the shade of his clothing matches as far as 
possible that of the background against which the 
birds are likely to see him. A set of white overalls 
are useful for slipping on when the ground is 
covered with snow. 
It is not proposed to offer any suggestions as to 
the various ways of ‘‘going to work,’’ as these, of 
course, will depend largely on the nature of the 
ground to be shot over. But whether it be walking 
up one’s birds, stalking them under cover of a mud 
bank, or “‘laying up’’ in their line of flight, one 
should be on the qui vive the whole time. This 
especially applies in the matter of laying up. To 
sit shivering in a dyke for hours on end in mid- 
winter, listening to the dreary monotone of a bitter, 
freezing wind as it wanders over miles of desolate 
mud flats, when one can touch anything but fire 
14 
