CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER Vl 

 OULTON BROAD TO GREAT YARMOUTH 



The Hire of a Pleasure Wherry Description of the Warrior Hiring 

 Sailing over Oulton Broad and Fishrow Bream Swims near the 

 Old Skeleton Mill The Water Bailiff and His House-boat Flixton 

 Broad Flighting Grounds St Olave's Abbey Sportsmen's 

 Quarters Fritton Lake Burgh Castle A Marsh Tavern The 

 Berney Arms The Dickey Works Smelts Breydon Water 

 Sport on Breydon Fishing at Great Yarmouth Sea Shooting from 

 Shrimping Boats A Specimen of the Asiatic Plover Where and 

 how to obtain Good Sea Shooting . . . pages 65-76 



CHAPTER VII 

 WILDFOWLING AT SEA 



A Wet Day At Home on the Warrior A Veteran Wildfowler 

 Interesting Debate Preliminary The Habits of Wildfowl upon a 

 Tidal Estuary How to work and handle a Shooting Ground 

 Wildfowling Afloat A Trip in a Steam Launch A Trip in a Small 

 Coasting Yacht Judging Distance over Water Approaching 

 Fowl at Sea under Sail A Wildfowl Battue and how It is con- 

 ducted Anecdote concerning a Dangerous Wildfowl Shooter A 

 Duck which sank (!) . . . . . pages 77-90 



CHAPTER VIII 



PUNT-GUNNING 



A Wildfowling Heretic Converted Punt-Gunning Approaching Fowl 

 Knowledge required for Punt-Gunning Effect of the Weather on 

 Fowl The Four Periods of Working Morning Punting Pre- 

 dictions on the Weather obtainable at Daybreak How to Stow a 

 Punt An Imaginary Trip in a Punt A Successful Shot Duffer 

 in a Punt A Deceptive Smee Successive Shots at Dawn 

 Cannibalistic Gulls Two Amateurs Punting, One a Skilled Hand 

 and the Other a Duffer Mid-Day Punting Evening Punting 

 Punting by Night Launching Feeling for Fowl with the Oars 

 The Danger of Icefloes Ubiquitous Wildfowlers Punting in a Fog 

 The Confidence Trick .... pages 91-101 



