176 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



difference of a few days; and the length of 

 stay depends also on the weather. In the 

 open season the brants begin to appear the 

 first week in April, and remain well into May, 

 when they become so fat they don't care to 

 fly much. In the autumn they come on the 

 scene, both brants and geese, in September, the 

 former leaving in November, and the latter, 

 if the weather is at all open, tarrying until 

 about the 20th of December, then taking up 

 winter quarters in the harbours and flats on 

 the North Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. 

 These harbours have always been great shoot- 

 ing-grounds, but have only in recent years 

 been the resort of outside gunners. On some 

 of the islands in the harbour buildings have 

 been erected, and all the appliances in the 

 way of boats, decoys, duck-punts, tubs, ice- 

 boats, procured, so that, thus equipped, visitors 

 generally have excellent sport in a week or ten 

 days 7 outing. 



To add to the attractiveness of such a 

 course, all the oysters and clams requisite to 

 satisfy the most ravenous appetite can be 

 procured within a few yards of the houses on 

 the flats. 



