5 o SOUTHERN ESTUARIES 



The winter shooting, especially in severe weather 

 like that of last year, must yield not only amuse- 

 ment, but a certain return in fowl to those men 

 whose houses are within sight of the tidal harbour, 

 and in some cases almost washed by its waters. They 

 shoot against one another, and seem out at all hours, 

 day, night, or dawn, so that a stranger has very 

 little chance of a shot. But this is natural enough, 

 seeing that the men live on the spot, and have a 

 kind of prescriptive right to the fish and fowl of their 

 own harbour. 



