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to big game hunting, in my estimation, 

 there is no more fascinating sport than 

 geese shooting. The birds are much shyer and 

 more difficult to approach than many kinds of 

 larger game. The uncertainty of the sport, which 

 has become proverbial, lends interest to it. We 

 have in the Province of Quebec several famous 

 resorts for geese, at most of which I have shot. 

 And it is noticeable that the methods pursued 

 vary with each locality. Next to a first-class gun 

 and good carefully loaded shells I find patience 

 more essential to success than anything else. I 

 have sat some days in a blind, or hid in the brush 

 for hours, without even getting a chance of a 

 shot, and the next tide or day, I have got fifteen 

 or twenty. The following is a list of the princi- 

 pal places referred to above. The Big Romaine, 

 in Labrador, Victor and Nickerson's Bay, in the 

 Betchuan group; the Great Peninsula, Seven 

 Islands Bay, Manicouagan Shoals, Rimouski, 

 Green Island, Goose Rocks and Seal Reef, oppos- 

 ite T Islet, and St. Joachim, near Quebec. 



At the three last named places, large flocks of 

 the wavy, or snow goose, are seen, but very few 

 seem to be killed. I never went to St. Joachim, but 



