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CHAPTER IX 

 CURRES AND SHORT- WINGED FOWL 



Origin of the Term " Curres " as Food Different Varieties How They 

 Feed and the Noise They make when Feeding Flocks of Thousands 

 found in the Roadsteads off Broadland all the Year round Tufted 

 Ducks Pochards Pochard-grass "Curres," not to be taken by 

 Decoymen Snaring and Netting on the Feeding Grounds Pochards 

 Breeding in Broadland Pochards as Food Their Difference in 

 Feeding in Contradistinction to Long-winged Fowl Scaups An 

 Exception to the Rule "to always Punt up-wind" How to Punt 

 to " Curres " Tough Birds Disappointing Shots " Ducking to the 

 Flash" A Boon to Young Puntsmen . . pages 102-107 



CHAPTER X 

 WILDFOWLING COSTUME 



Mr Fielding Banner's Costume A Cap or a Sou'-wester How to cure 

 Cold Hands Anecdotes told by Mr Harmer Stalking Horses 

 Using a Cart for Shooting Geese Using Real Horses for Stalking 

 and how to train Them Artificial Horses and how to make 

 Them How to approach Birds with a Stalking Horse An 

 Awkward Predicament The Semi-Stalking Horse and how to 

 make and use It ..... pages 108-115 



CHAPTER XI 

 SHORE SHOOTING 



'Shore Snobbers" Equipment Indifferent Sportsmen Following the 

 Tide Tubbing A Scotch Professional Tubber Blinds The 

 Packing of Birds on the Top of the Tide The Habits of Birds on 

 Small Estuaries The Gun Carriage Beating the High Water 

 Mark Probable Bags Queer Bags A Right and Left at a Seal and 

 a Wren An Ingenious Device for Shore Shooters Shore Shooting 

 from a Boat A Tip for Sculling Dinghys Punting as against 

 Shore Shooting ..... pages 116-122 



CHAPTER XII 

 FLIGHTING 



The Morning Flight Bungling The Importance of keeping a " Lead- 

 in " Screens The Start Shooting Collecting the Birds 

 Working Outskirts An Evening Flight Comparisons Habits of 

 Wildfowl during Frosty Weather A Flighter's Dog and Its Train- 



