58 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



CHAPTER VI. 



SHOOTING GEESE AND BLUE-WINGS ON THE 

 PORT JOLI HARBOUR AND LAKES IN 

 QUEEN'S COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA. 



FOB at least twenty-five years every spring 

 and autumn found me at the settlement of 

 Port Joli, for a week's outing and shooting 

 blue-wings, ducks, and wild geese on its 

 harbour and lakes. Owing to the tide leaving 

 the flats bare for miles, it was and is yet 

 a famous resort for thousands of ducks, and 

 the winter home of the largest Canadian 

 goose, as well as the resting-place of 

 thousands of the ordinary-flight geese on 

 their way Northward in the spring. There 

 are numbers of large ledges in the harbour 

 over which, with favourable winds, the birds 

 fly from the outer to the inner feeding- 

 grounds. On such days I went with my 



