CHAPTER XV. 



The " Kdrs Drag.'" Kkstroin's Description. The Lark-pipe. Shooting ;^ 

 the Drag.- -The Poacher's, Ex]iedient. Shooting with the Pointer. 

 In Scani;i. On the West Coast. In the Island of Gotland. In 

 Southern Kin-ope.- Traps and Snares. 



ITVEWEll Woodcocks, in proportion to their numbers, 

 arc probably killed in Scandinavia than any other 

 bird coming under the denomination of game ; and this 

 is ^easily accounted for, as, excepting during migration, 

 when they congregate to some extent in the more southern 

 parts of Sweden and Norway, it is hardly worth any one's 

 while to go expressly in search of them, owing to their 

 being so very thinly scattered over the country. 



The larger portion of those that are killed are probably 

 shot during the pairing and breeding season at the 



' Drag,"or " Roding-stand," recently mentioned, a prac- 

 tice that we in England would look on as little better than 

 poaching. I myself, it is true, have occasionally taken 

 part in the amusement, and might therefore, from personal 

 experience, describe how matters arc carried on; but as 



