xii CONTENTS. 



sliot— Antipatliy of punters towards shore-gunners— Ted Steele; his unfor- 

 tunate adventm-es— " Stand-by!" jealousy of sliore-gunners ; hard peas ; " killed 

 from bead to foot ;" pursuit of offenders ; cruel deception ; a disconsolate 

 walk ; tbe suspicious mound. 



CHiP LV. Page 289 — WILD-FOAVL SHOOTING IN THE FENS— Historical 

 description of tbe fens— Great Bedford Level— Lincolnsliire fens— Perseverance 

 of tbe Romans- Re£;-ion of swamps— Tbe eigbt principal rivers— Um-ivaUed 

 fowling— AVbittleseaMeer— Ramsey Meer— Tbe aviary of England— Wild-fowl 

 mirserTes- Tbe sportsman's regret— Days gone by— Norfollc broads— Sport to 

 tbe beai-t's content— Tbe fen sportsman— Bird-calls— A moor skirting tbe 

 sea— Certain sport— Sambo's first lesson in tbe fens— Enviable sport— Indivi- 

 dual experience. 



Chap. LVI., Page 297.— PLOVER SHOOTING.— England a favourite resort of 

 plovers '; good practice- Golden plover ; best manner of getting at tbem ; tbeir 

 peculiariti^es — An extraordinary sbot — Mode of punting to plovers ; interesting 

 babits ; best time for sbooting tbem— Grey plovers— Lapwing— Superstition of 

 tbe Scots ; crude ideas — Pewit Island— Capturing plovers with nets and snai-es ; 

 explanation of the art. 



Chap, LVII., Page 304. — THE CURLEW; distrustful nature of; advantages of 

 being able to mimic then- call — Hints to tbe punter — Mode of approaching 

 curlews with canoe — Historical notes. 



Chap. LVII., Page 307.— METHOD OF CAPTURING DOTTERELS ; rare 

 dehcaeies ; a mu-tb-making bu'd ; mode of capturing tbem in the fens on dark 

 nif^bts — Singular traditionary assertions respecting dotterels — The author's 

 experiences — Lethargic habits. 



Chap. LIX., Page 310.— THE RUFF AND REEVE ; scarcity of at the present 

 day ; rare luxuries ; their remarkable babits ; love battles ; mode of capturing 

 tbem in the feus ; another method ; decoy birds ; nooses ; tbe Norfolk fowlers' 

 mode of catching them ; tbeir present scarcity accounted for — Fattened ruffs ; 

 enormous prices paid for tbem ; mode of fattening tbem — A fen-fowler's profits. 



Chap. LX., Page 315.— GODWIT SHOOTING ; amusement for young sports- 

 men — Ionian godwit — Dunlin sbooting ; graceful evolutions ; silver clouds — 

 immense numbers killed — Sea snipes ; puerile sport. 



Chap. LXL, Page 318.— SNIPE SHOOTING— Effects of fen drainage— Irish 

 bogs — Universal sport — Down-wind versus up-vrind — Services of a dog — Tbe 

 great snipe — The common snipe — Snap shots — Tbe Jack-snij)e — Mode of cap- 

 turing snipes with nets. 



Chap. LXIL, Page 323.— WOODCOCK SHOOTING; peculiar charms of— habits 

 of the birds— Adverse gales — Singular adventure — Tbe gardener's discovciy — 

 The flunkey's froUc — Skeleton woodcocks — Manner of flushing woodcocks ; 

 favourable positions — Singular propensities — Deception of tbeir flight — Remote 

 chances — Trying seasons — Various bints — Evening flight — " Mark cock !" — 

 Irish sport — The Duke of Richmond's woodcock pie. 



Chap. LXIIL, Page 330.— METHODS OF CAPTURING WOODCOCKS 

 WITH GLADE-NETS, SNARES, AND OTHER CURIOUS ARTIFICES. 

 — Discovery of an ancient engraving of tbe art — Manner of suspending glade- 

 uets — Cock roads — Mode of capture — A profitable pursuit — French fowlers — 

 Fowlers of Cornwall and Devon — Costly delicacies— Profits of a Devonshire 

 fowler— Sniring and trapping woodcocks — Continental methods of catching 

 woodcocks— Flexible rods— Woods of Finland and Lapland— Skilful fowlers- 

 French method A la foletouere. 



