NOTES ON SHOOTING. 



CHAPTER I. 

 COCK SHOOTING. 



THIS sport has been compared in excitement 

 to the chase properly so called ; to flush and 

 knock over a woodcock being thought by 

 many who are experienced alike in hound, 

 horse, and gun, to be as pleasant a feat as to 

 ride across country and come in well at the 

 death. One advantage, at least, cock shooting 

 possesses it is no mere tame holiday sport. 

 You do not bring your woodcocks up by hand 

 as you may your pheasant, you cannot flank 

 them like partridges, nor need you pay heavy 

 rents to get at them as you do for- grouse. 

 Then to follow this game is not so distressing 

 as to follow snipe, and what to some people 



