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and searched for those slightly-tipped fowl, which invariably 

 make for dry land. 



Such a morning's work as this, for real sport and enjoy- 

 ment, far excels a big day's covert shooting with its large 

 bag of more easily-manipulated game, which can be so far 

 controlled to the will that results are reduced to a certainty, 

 or even to partridge driving, taxing as it does the skill of the 

 shooter to a much greater extent. 



A sportsman of the old school, when he has thus 

 thoroughly disturbed his ground, after breakfast, instead of 

 gorse, hurdles and hot corners, marshals his guns back to the 

 rough ground contiguous to the site of the morning shoot, 

 intersected as it generally is with bogs, reed beds, swamps 

 and alder carrs, where, with a sufficient number of beaters, 

 spaniels and retrievers, every yard is thoroughly walked, 

 and all wounded or pricked fowl, which would otherwise 

 waste away and die, are picked, besides taking toll from 

 pheasants, wood-pigeons, snipe, and the other inhabitants of 

 such aqueous regions, which (when laid out for inspection at 

 the close of the day) are at least rich in the variety of their 

 species. 



Evening Flight. 



This, it will be seen, is a complete antithesis to its predecessor, 

 " Morning flight." In the morning the birds are mostly inter- 

 cepted upon arrival at their diurnal resting-places, whilst in 

 the evening they are waylaid on their journey from the afore- 

 said strongholds, or else upon the actual feeding grounds 

 themselves. But the great and most noticeable advantage 

 that the evening has over the morning flight is that the 

 feeding grounds, extending over such vast expanses of country, 

 enable it to be practised evening after evening for an in- 

 definite period, so long as open weather continues, provided 

 the shooter is within reach of a good habitat ; but, on the 

 other hand, the morning flight, as described, can only be 

 occasionally indulged in, and then one must have absolute 



