A WARY BIRD. 



We'll make a soleniu wager ou your cunuiugs. 



— Hanilei. 



*7f MAX, to be successful in brant shooting must be a 

 yX sportsman of the most enthusiastic type and a fair 

 \^shot. Moreover, he must possess a good constitu- 

 tion, plenty of patience, and plenty of ability to defy cold, 

 wet and exposure. He must expect many disappoint- 

 ments and a great deal of waiting, for the birds are so 

 wary and so seldom deceived it is rarely he will find 

 them within the range of his heaviest charges of powder 

 and shot. When the chance of a shot is obtained and he 

 downs his bird, the excitement is over quick as a flash 

 and he wonders how it all happened. Let me describe 

 how it is done. 



During the early spring the guides have sunk boxes 

 large enough to hold three men. The boxes are placed 

 either out on the bay in shallow water, piling up around 

 them hundreds of wheelbarrowfuls of sand at low tide 

 (covering the same and neatly fastening it down with a 

 sail cloth, so that the rushing tides cannot carry it away) 

 to represent a sand bar ; or they are fixed on some jutting 

 point of land in the bay, always using plenty of sand, 

 behind which the gunners are to sit with bowed heads, 



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