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Large numbers of white-fronted geese are killed 

 on the marshes at Margam, in Swansea Bay, by keeping 

 them constantly on the move between their feeding 

 and resting places. As soon as they have alighted in 

 one spot the keepers appear on the scene and drive 

 them up, so that they are compelled to 'run the 

 gauntlet ' again and again. In heavy weather, when 

 the sea is too rough for the geese to remain on the 

 coast in comfort, and also during dense fogs, they will 

 constantly be moving about from place to place. One 

 of the best stands for shooting the geese at Margam, 

 I am told, is near a railway crossing, where one can 

 at times kill them from behind a telegraph post. 

 Being accustomed to the sight of gangers at work on 

 the line, they take no notice of the human form, and 

 therefore fear no treachery. In his ' Letters to Young 

 Shooters,' Sir R. Payne-Gallwey, Bart., says that 

 during a succession of gales and snowstorms, a few 

 years ago, Mr. Fletcher, of Saltoun, N.B., killed to his 

 own gun at Margam the extraordinary number of 

 sixty-three white-fronted geese in one day ; and, again, 

 on another occasion during the same winter, fifty-four 

 of these birds. 



One of the oldest and most famous resorts for 

 grey geese, to which I have before alluded, is at 

 Berkeley, in Gloucestershire. Early in the spring 



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