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manner as possible without causing undue alarm. A 

 method of driving usually successful is, where the geese 

 are found on a small island, for the guns to take " post " 

 in some narrow creek or channel, which the geese are 

 known usually to take on leaving the feeding-ground. 

 In such a course they will nearly always be got flying 

 low and well within shot. 



Flighting. This is always an uncertain form of 

 sport, and requires the exercise of much patience. A 

 great deal of the matter bearing upon duck-flighting is 

 applicable to geese-flighting, but the latter are best 

 found, at least the grey lag and bernacle, flighting to 

 corn and potato-fields. By an examination of the 

 ground, the keeper will find ample indication as to 

 where the guns should be placed, and if sufficient 

 patience is exercised, success is practically certain to a 

 more or less degree. The flighting hours correspond 

 with those of duck. 



Note. As wildfowling is a sport practised only by a privileged few, it 

 was thought inadvisable that it should be dealt with at any length. The 

 reader is accordingly advised to seek further information fasmTkeEncyclo- 

 padia of Sport, from the volumes on Shootingvn. the Badminton Library, 

 and from the works of Mr. J. G. Millais, Mr. H. G. Folkard, Mr. Abel 

 Chapman, Mr. L. Upcott Gill, Mr. Horace Cox, and Colonel Hawker. 

 Those who are interested in the question of shooting with swivel and 

 other forms of guns will find full information in the works of many of 

 these writers. 



