SHOOTING WILD DUCKS ARTIFICIALLY REARED 307 



they are flying, more or less, as the wind suits them. The real 

 wild duck cling to the water, and follow down the course of 

 a stream in such a way that two or three guns can be so posted 

 as to command the whole lateral extension of flighting duck 

 or teal, except that both these birds are easily scared by 

 shooting to mount far out of gun - shot. When they are 

 mounted they do not necessarily follow the stream, for the 

 reason that they can probably see other water far ahead, and 

 they make for it in a direct line. But as the shots will mount 

 them, so also a succession of men posted in their line of flight 

 will each send them a little higher, and consequently the shooter 

 should not only be invisible to the duck before he has fired, but 

 after also ; otherwise he will spoil sport for the next gun down 

 stream, or up, as the case may be. 



