138 UPLAND SHOOTING. 



very cold, put on a woolen coat, and over all a canvas 

 or corduroy shooting-coat, with plenty of pockets for 

 shells, etc. 



Always have a small screw-driver and a shell -extractor 

 in your shooting-coat pocket. You may have trouble 

 with your gun, and have to take it apart. Carry an extra 

 firing-pin, as you may break one. Wear an old light- 

 colored cap or hat; a cap or hat that looks like dry grass 

 is what the sportsman needs. Ducks do not like black 

 clothes, nor a great black hat. 



If you are shooting where the pass is dry, use leather 

 boots or shoes, but where it is wet, use rubber hip-boots. 

 Keep the feet dry, if possible. 



If the shooter has no shooting-coat except a dark-col- 

 ored one, he can make one out of an old coffee-sack. 

 Cut a hole in the bottom of the sack for the head, and 

 one for each arm, and you have a coat of good color for 

 duck -shooting. It does not look quite as fine as a well- 

 made shooting-coat, but the ducks do not care for style. 



In speechless admiration, his eyes with rapture gloat 



Upon his horde of trophies, the mallards in his boat. 



A sudden doubt confronts him how bear them from the shore 



Unto the distant station, two miles away or morel 



