Wttofotol on 

 Water, 



I WAS here shown an ingenious mode of sweeping 

 down the wildfowl, in large quantities, by Mr. Turner, 

 His Majesty's keeper ; who, in his younger days, was 

 a great performer in the fens. It was my intention 

 to have gone down with an artist, and taken, for our 

 frontispiece, a drawing of him, with his whole battery, 

 and the beautiful scenery that surrounds him. But 

 here we must, for the present, close the curtain ; as 

 any thing relating to Windsor Park would call to 

 memory what, at this moment, would deprive us of 

 entering with spirit into the subject. It may be well, 

 however, just to mention that Mr. Turner's plan of 

 killing wildfowl has been to fix a great many large 

 guns parallel to the edge of the lake and to cover 

 them over with grass. He planted them about a hun- 

 dred yards apart ; and had a long wire, from the trigger 

 of the foremost gun, to the but of the next one behind 

 it ; and so on. By this means he had only to plant, 

 and then cock, all his guns ; and, by pulling off the 

 first with some hundred yards of line, he opened, on 

 the fowl, an almost instantaneous running fire, which 

 swept the whole edge of the lake, where, after their 



