PLOVER SHOOTING 



the vicinity who are keeping the plover on 

 the move. 



Plover shooting is nearly all spring shoot- 

 ing, although good golden-plover shooting is 

 possible in the fall. It takes a man out on 

 the marshes and prairies, and gives him exer- 

 cise and sunshine. As to clothing, the regu- 

 lation brown duck, grass-colored, is the best. 

 Do not wear rubber boots. Wear an old pair 

 of stout shoes, together with a pair of heavy 

 woollen stockings, and clamp your shoes and 

 your trousers with a thick pair of leather or 

 duck leggings, and the combination is almost 

 water-proof. And at any rate it will not be 

 weighty. When you get back to your start- 

 ing-place, you should have dry shoes and 

 stockings for an immediate change. A good, 

 hard rub-down for ten minutes before you 

 make the change, and you will not catch cold 

 or suffer any ill effects. But rubber boots 

 may lame you for weeks. 



There is a peculiar delight in lying on a 

 stretch of uncultivated prairie or marsh land 

 and watching for plover. The absence of 

 trees in such a place gives the idea and effect 

 of a sea. The sky comes down to the horizon 



