284 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



shooting, always be quiet, and never allow your 

 friends or keepers to be halloaing and bawling. 



In duck shooting, and where you are walk- 

 ing, always work up wind ; but if in a punt, 

 down wind, disguising your punt if you possibly 

 can with a bunch of fern or bushes ; these wary 

 birds think something natural is coming down 

 on them with the wind, and no danger. When 

 within shot, give a slight whistle, which will 

 bring their heads up, then let drive with your 

 first barrel a little over them, and take them 

 with your second as they rise, right into the 

 brown of them. 



In plover shooting, if the birds are on the 

 ground, to get near them you must walk round 

 them in a circle, coming nearer by degrees, this 

 is supposing you are by yourself, if you are two 

 or three, you may work them in another way, 

 and generally manage to drive them to the 

 guns. 



The most killing way for plovers is of an even- 

 ing to watch by their stands or roosting places ; 

 they then come wheeling about backwards and 

 forwards for more than an hour, and this way 

 you may often have many effective shots. 



