70 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



We have nothing to say here in reference to 

 the kind of gun to be used in snipe shooting ; 

 this is left to the choice of the shooter. 



As to the apparel most suitable for traversing 

 the drifts and marshes, it would be well to re- 

 member that there is a water-proof boot made 

 by a few Philadelphia artizans, which for light- 

 ness and durability exceeds any work of the 

 kind which we have ever used. They should 

 be made Jarge enough to admit two pairs of 

 stockings one pair made of lamb's wool to be 

 worn next to the skin. You will find the ad- 

 vantage of this, when riding home nine or ten 

 miles, after your day's hunt. 



Snipe are found in almost every quarter of the 

 globe. The editor has seen them exposed for 

 sale alive in the market at Canton, China, and 

 killed them in the marshes of the bay of Santa 

 Catherina, on the southern coast of Brazil. 



terity with which they drew out and swallowed the worms, and the 

 quantity which they caught and devoured in the space of a few 

 minutes, he might readily have killed them all at one discharge. 

 They kept so close together, were so busily intent on their opera- 

 tions, that, to an imaginative mind, they might have recalled the 

 fictitious image of so many gnomes in a mine. 



After he had observed them for some minutes, they silently flew 

 and alit a few yards farther off, where the inequalities of the sur- 

 face of the ground effectually hid them from view. 



