310 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN. 



fowling localities, inland ones especially, to them- 

 selves. They are wise, and quite right also, in 

 doing so. I told my courteous informant that I had 

 been used to fowling on the shore, but that I cer- 

 tainly did expect to have seen some fowl on waters 

 like this; to which he replied, "So you would, if I 

 had not put them up from both ponds this morning. 

 When they go they take others with them. It is 

 when they leave the ponds, and when they come in, 

 that we get them. We do not care about their 

 being here in the daytime." As he had the right of 

 shooting and fishing the ponds with some thousands 

 of acres of the moorlands surrounding both of them, 

 this gentleman was able to communicate much val- 

 uable information, which he freely gave, and for 

 which I heartily thanked him. The reason that 

 we had seen no fowl or bird was that we had, we 

 found, been wandering all round his shooting-ground, 

 from which he had already caused the fowl to be 

 raised. 



There are many large extents of water within 

 a few miles of .each other in this district. When 

 raised from one, the fowl go direct to another, 



