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made to get the wind as much behind the 

 shooter's back as possible in order to ensure 

 a closer shot than were this precaution not 

 taken. This is a simple but a golden rule, 

 applicable alike to plover, snipes and wild- 

 fowl, and its neglect is the frequent cause 

 of a disappointment which otherwise had 

 been avoided. 



Capital flight shooting may sometimes be 

 obtained as the birds top the neighbouring 

 low hills on their way to and from the lakes 

 at Ningpo ; but exciting and entrancing as 

 the sport is, it is but a short time pleasure, 

 never lasting more than an hour, and but 

 too often only a fractional part of that time. 



All the arts of Chinese fowling which are 

 many, curious, and of ten eminently practical, 

 are exercised by the native punters, from 

 whom the foreigner has much to learn, upon 

 the broad waters of the Tai Hu, the Great 

 South, the Poyang and the Tungting lakes. 

 The river steamers bring to the Shanghai 

 market ample practical proofs of the suc- 

 cesses of the China " Shooty-man. " 



At Wuhu, in Anwhei, 400 miles up the 

 Yangtze, the country for miles is protected 

 from inundation by huge dykes of great 

 length crossing each other at right angles, 



