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GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



ficatioii of geniality and good nature, passed some very 

 happy days, trudging quietly round the edge of swamp and 

 wandering round the moor and woods. In this manner a 

 single gun, knowing the ground well, could get as good a 

 bag as half a dozen could have got, as the ground was not 

 the least disturbed, and the Snipe and Duck, after swing- 

 ing round and round once or twice, would settle in other 

 parts of the Bog, and could sometimes, if the day was fine, 

 be flushed once or twice before they would finally take 

 their departure. A good and varied bag was sure to be 

 obtained, provided one did not mind a l^it of a wetting, 

 and in some places a rough walk. Perhaps the three odd 

 days taken from my game-book may be of some little 

 interest to my sporting readers : — 



The above were all shot in the ordinary course of a 

 day's shooting, without searching for any single species to 

 complete the variety. 



But to return to our subject. Blackgame will often sit 

 well in woods during the winter after a heavy fall of snow, 

 and a good bao- may sometimes be made, where l»irds are 



