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CHAPTER XVI 



HICKLING DISTRICT 



Tributaries of the Bure The Thurne or Hundred Stream Womack 

 Broad Potter Heigham A Queer Signboard Monster Pike 

 Hickling Broad The Annual Coot Shoot An Amusing Incident 

 Sailing on the Ice, and Iceboats A Sporting Divine An After- 

 dinner Yarn, "Ratting at a Water Kennel, or A Night with a 

 Drunkard" ... . . . . pages 188-197 



CHAPTER XVII 



HORSEY DISTRICT 



Horsey Mere Martham Broad Coarse Fishing on Heigham Sounds 

 General Description of the Neigbourhood A Day's Rough 

 Shooting in the Flegg Hundreds on the Hickling Level 



pages 198-206 



CHAPTER XVIII 

 THE WAVENEY VALLEY 



The Waveney Burgh St Peter's and Its Quaint Old Church A 

 Sporting Parson Seven-mile Carr Barnby Broad Carlton 

 Level A Stilted Plover Beccles Geldston and Ellingham 

 Locks A Sporting Lock-keeper Large Fish A Curious In- 

 scription Bungay . Lock The Ruins of Mettingham Castle, 

 Bungay "A Broadland Poor's Marsh" The .Decimation of a 

 Colony of Reedfauvettes " Snookey " A Moving Bog 



pages 207-218 



CHAPTER XIX 



THE YARE VALLEY 



The Yare Haddiscoe Cut Large Flocks of Plover How and when 

 to shoot Them Regular Formation in Flight of Golden Plover 

 A Peculiar Habit An Amusing Experience Grey Plover 

 Habits of Plover Egging Enormous Egg Gatherings Marvellous 

 Cleverness of the Egg Gatherers Plover Netting Shooting 

 Calling The Farmers' Friends Reedham Village and Ferry 

 Hardley Cross and the diet Cantley Buckenham, Hassingham, 

 and Rockland Broads Twelve Hundred Snipe in One Season 

 The Shooting on the River Brundall and Coldham Hall Surling- 

 ham Broad and Ferry Bramerton Woods End The Devil's 

 House The Prettiest Village in England Quaint Old Norwich 

 The Upper Reaches of the River and the Sport They afford- 

 By egone Days " Toper's " Trial . . pages 219-237 



