152 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN. 



CHAPTER IX. 



ON FOWLERS AND WILD-FOWLING. 



FIRST on our list of wild -fowlers come that class 

 who shoot to fill the stomachs of those at home, 

 either with the fowl themselves or with the money 

 these bring when sold. When I was young, money 

 was much more hardly earned than it is now ; and 

 it required no small amount of manoeuvring on the 

 part of the fowlers, and a very accurate knowledge 

 of the different localities along our coast, with their 

 varying food-supplies, to meet with even an ordi- 

 nary amount of success. 



In my native fishing village, wild -fowling and 

 fishing were almost inseparably connected ; even 

 the mechanics of our community were devoted to 

 both of these pursuits, so far as their daily callings 



