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BAT-SHOOTING. 



At the time when spring snipe-shooting has fully come to 

 an end, winter wild fowl has terminated, also, for several 

 months ; indeed, it has ceased to be an object to any save 

 the professional gunner ; for, unless in cold and windy 

 weather, it is rare that birds will fly thickly enough, or 

 visit the siools with suflicient frequency, to render their 

 pursuit much pleasure — a chilly and laborious pleasure at 

 the best, and one which he must be an ardent and indefati- 

 gable sportsman, who follows regularly, unless a dweller on 

 the coast. 



It is true, that when the great swarms of geese have 

 soared sky-high, and long gone hawnking away to the north- 



