56 DUCK SHOOTING. [CH. in. 



sport. The cover is so good that, if it is not often 

 beaten, the birds will frequently get up singly, or only 

 a couple at a time. The dogs should keep swimming 

 about within gun-shot, while you are slowly and silently 

 paddling, or probably poling your canoe through the 

 most likely spots. Eelays of spaniels are requisite, for 

 it is fatiguing work. If, by any rare chance, you are- 

 situated where you can get much of this delightful 

 shooting, and you are an enthusiast in training, it may 

 be worth your while to consider whether there would 

 not be an advantage in making the dogs perfect in the 

 " down charge," as they would then cease swimming the 

 instant you fired. But this long digression about 

 spaniels has led us away from your pup, which we 

 assumed (3) to be a pointer or setter, very unlike our 

 good Irish friend, well represented in the last en- 

 graving. 



