274 DUCK SHOOTING' 



geese are shot, the attempt is usually made to shoot the 

 first barrel at the birds on the water and the second at 

 them as they rise. The "swimming" of geese requires 

 great judgment and perseverance and a good knowl- 

 edge of the points and bars of the bay. Often it takes 

 hours of careful work to get the geese up to the right 

 place, yet very often it is successfully done, and the de- 

 sired shot is had. 



DRIVING. 



During the winter, geese frequent many of the wider 

 rivers running into the Chesapeake Bay and into the 

 brackish water sounds on the coasts of Virginia and 

 North and South Carolina. Here they are often shot 

 by a method of driving which is graphically described 

 in an account written by Mr. L. J. Picot, who has prac- 

 ticed it, and published in Forest and Stream. It is as 

 follows : 



; That part of the Roanoke River which flows through 

 Warren County, and between the upper portions of 

 Halifax and Northampton counties. North Carolina, 

 has long been a favorite feeding place for the wild 

 geese. As soon as the first biting frosts come in 

 October great flocks of geese take up their winter abode 

 in these waters. Huge boulders or rocks in midstream 

 furnish them roosting places at night, without fear of 

 danger of invasion from man or beast. These rocks are 

 always situated between swift-running, though shal- 



