ioo MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



they are in approaching the game, that they 

 raise their heads while creeping, which almost 

 always causes alarm. I found by experience 

 the best way was to take marks on the line 

 on which you wished to creep before starting, 

 having a special^one where you wanted to stop, 

 then creep for your first mark, head down, 

 but steady, carrying your gun along with each 

 movement of the right or left arm, then from 

 the first to the next, and so on to the last. 

 Now, if there has been no sound of rising 

 birds, you may be reasonably sure of being 

 within shot, as geese and ducks have great 

 curiosity when they see any undefined thing 

 approaching them, and will sit with their 

 heads erect even within danger-limit. Now, 

 to raise one's head at such a time means 

 certain failure, as they would be up and off. 

 Instead of doing so, at this juncture I cock 

 both barrels presuming, of course, my gun 

 is a double one sometimes lowering myself 

 and shooting from full length, as at rifle- 

 target practice, or, sitting on my haunches, 

 open fire from that position. My reader will 

 pardon this digression, and we will return to 

 the start off after those geese. 



