Habits and Habitat of Snipe. 1 9 1 



dry all day if you really mean to pursue the 

 sport as a sport, and not merely to take a 

 piece of bog or marsh incidentally when after 

 other game. 



I shall not enter too fully into the question 

 of health ; but a word of caution on this head 

 is especially applicable when floods are under 

 consideration. Let me then earnestly impress 

 on the reader, and especially the young reader, 

 the absolute necessity of continual and rapid 

 movement when once the feet and legs have 

 become wet. It is simple suicide for a man 

 to paddle all day from one bog to another, or 

 perhaps to cross and recross brooks and wet 

 ditches, and then, as so many do, sit down for 

 a pipe, or twenty minutes' rest and chat, very 

 likely on the sodden ground, or at best a log 

 of wet timber. If you are tired, go home ; 

 if you must smoke (and I confess that even 

 the most glorious day's snipe-shooting would 

 be but an uneasy affair to me without the 

 weed), puff away as you march, and don't 

 forget to carry your pipe In the left corner 

 of your mouth, or many snipe will you miss, 



