CANOE SHOOTING. 



On arriving sufficiently near, should the water be 

 so low that you cannot present your gun at the 

 birds without kneeling or standing up, you must 

 get aground at the side of the creek, or steady your 

 canoe by means of forcing each oar from between the 

 thowls into the mud, otherwise the recoil of the gun 

 will set her rocking, and thus you might possibly be 

 tipped out. Having made all fast., rise up and fire. 

 Take care, however, to rise high enough to be well 

 clear of the mud, or not a feather will you touch ; 

 and present as follows : By day, or moonlight, if 

 the birds are close, directly at them : or if beyond 

 forty yards, shoot at their heads ; unless they are 

 feeding in a concave place, where the tide has left a 

 kind of plash, in which case you must level rather 

 under them, or you will only graze their back feathers. 

 In starlight take your aim just on the top of the 



NARROW BLACK LINE, IN WHICH BIRDS ALWAYS 



APPEAR, TO ONE WHO is LOW DOWN ; arid when 

 so dark that you cannot see your gun, present, as 

 you think, about a foot over, or you will most likely 

 shoot about a foot under them. 



Should you have been successful, you will, if at 

 night, generally hear your cripples beating on the 

 mud, before you can sufficiently recover your eyes, 

 from being dazzled by the fire, to see them. Your 

 man then puts on his mud boards, taking the setting 



hy per oxy muriate of potash, and dipping it into a small phial of 

 vitriolic acid. 



