??TTO0TTXa AVILD DUCKS, ETC. 881 



Bees'-wax . . . -^ pound, 



Bungimdj pitch . , 2 ounces, 



Eesin .... 2 ounces, 



Mutton suet . . , -J pound ; 



these to be melted over a slow fire until they are well incor- 

 porated. 



The haunts of wild-fowl must be approached with as little 

 noise as possible, and it will be found that great caution is 

 requisite to get within gun-shot of them. They have a 

 strong tendency to fly towards water whenever they are dis- 

 turbed, so that the sportsman must be accompanied by a 

 dog which has been trained a retriever, such as a water- 

 spaniel, or ^Newfoundland dog ; or a setter if he likes the sport, 

 as wounded birds are very likely to fall in the water. 



Mr. Gilpin gives the following interesting account of wild 

 fowl shooting upon the Hampshire coast : — " The coast be- 

 tween Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is peculiar, consist- 

 ing at ebb-tide of vast muddy flats, covered with green 

 sea-weed : it affords the fowler an opportunity of practising 

 arts perhaps nowhere else resorted to. Fowling and fishing 

 are, indeed, on this coast commonly the employment of the 

 same person. He who in summer, with his line and net, 

 plies the shores when they are overflowed by the tide, in 

 winter, with his gun, as evening draws on, runs up in his 

 boat among little creeks which the tide leaves in the mud- 

 lands, and lies in expectation of his prey. Sea-fowl usually 

 feed by night, when in all their multitudes they come down 

 to graze on the savannahs of the shores. As the sonorous 

 cloud advances, (for their noise in the air resembles a pack of 

 hounds in full cry,) the attentive fowler listens which way 

 they bend their course ; perhaps he has the mortification 

 to hear them alight at too great a distance for his gun 

 (though of the longest barrel) to reach them, and if he 



