OF SHOOTING, 



If you have not shelter enough, by reason 

 of the nakedness of the banks and want of 

 trees, you must creep upon your hands and 

 knees under the banks, and lying flat upon 

 your belly, put the nose of your piece over 

 the bank and take your level : for a fowl is 

 so fearful of man, that though an hawk 

 were soaring over her head, yet at the sight 

 of him she would take the wing and run the 

 risk of that danger. But sometimes it so 

 happens, that the fowls are so shy, there is 

 no getting a shot at them without a stalking- 

 horse, which must be some old jade trained 

 up for the purpose, who will gently, and as 

 you please, walk up and down in the water, 

 flodding and eating the grass that grows 

 therein. You must shelter yourself and gun 

 behind his fore shoulders, bending your body 

 down low by his sides, and keeping his body 

 still full between you and the fowls ; being 

 within shot, take your level from before the 

 fore part of the horse, shooting as it were be- 

 tween the horse's neck and the water, which 

 is much better than shooting under his belly> 



