CONTENTS xv 



ing Clothes Moonlight Flighting Flighting Inland Positions 

 to Select Snipe and Plover at Flight A Peculiarity of Duck and 

 Mallard An Instance of Flighting during the Daytime Flighting 

 on Tidal or Salt Waters Effect of the Tide on the Flight- 

 Deprecation of Shooting out of Range Decoy Flighting Pools 

 The Improvement They make to an Estate How to shape 

 Them How to make Them Half-bred Decoy Ducks and Their 

 Use How to establish a "Lead-In" The Secret of Success How 

 to properly work a Decoy Flighting Pool and the Sport obtained 

 Wariness of the Half-bred Fowl . . . pages 123-140 



CHAPTER XJII 

 GREAT YARMOUTH TO HORNING 



Leaving Great Yarmouth Sailing to Acle " Muckfleet " Flighting 

 Lapwings A Jumping Pole for Dykes Angling at Acle Upton 

 Broad Snaring Ruffs Thurmnouth St Bennet's Abbey Perch 

 Swims Marshland Shooting The South Walsham Group 

 of Broads Broadland Life at the Close of Day The Ran worth 

 Group of Broads A Day's Shooting round Ranworth Swamps 



pages 141-153 



CHAPTER XIV 

 A RIVER YACHTING RESORT 



Shooting on the River Flighting Ground near Horning A River- 

 Yachting Resort Horning Ferry A Sportsman of the Old School 

 An Enormous Pike Country Dances in the Kitchen An Impromptu 

 Concert How a Quarrelsome Tourist was Sobered " A Shooter's 

 Confession, or The Gun with the Bent Stock" . pages 154-171 



CHAPTER XV 

 HORNING TO THE SOURCE OF THE BURE 



Quitting Horning Ferry Ho ! John Barley Corn A Time-honoured 

 Custom Horning Village Beeston Old Hall Shooting a Wood- 

 cock in Mistake for a Rat A Distinguished Poacher and His 

 Defence The Futile Efforts of "The Norfolk Broads Protection 

 Association of London" Contemptible Shooters in Broadland and 

 Outrages upon Dumb Creatures Large Perch An Acrobatic 

 Young Lady Caution on carrying Guns in Rowing and Sailing 

 Boats- Hoveton, Salhouse and Wroxham Broads Anglers' Quarters 

 Coltishall Buxton and Alysham A Broadland Trilby, or A 

 Reverie of Youthful Days by Mead and Stream. pages 172-187 



