How to walk for and shoot Snipe. 8i 



were beating up towards them from the 

 contrary direction. This, though theoretic- 

 ally true, will be found to be of very little 

 importance practically. Very fierce must 

 be the gale that prevents the snipe in any 

 case from hearing your footsteps squelching 

 over the quaggy ground or through the 

 crisp stiff rushes. The ring of your shots, 

 too, can never be so smothered by the 

 roaring wind as not to strike as a warning 

 to the listening ears of every little bundle 

 of nerves lurking close, perhaps all the 

 closer for its fear, under the shelter of tuft 

 and tussock. 



I firmly believe that all wild fowl, even 

 when resting, are aware of the presence of 

 a human being, wind or no wind, within a 

 distance of a quarter of a mile in open 

 country, sometimes more, never less, and 

 that only the hope that the hated being 

 will not chance to come their way induces 

 them to remain perdtt. The success of the 

 old device of walking with ever - lessening 

 circles, carefully looking the other way all 



