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direct line from bend to bend, while his spaniels should 
follow the windings, working out every bush and brake, 
rummaging all the grass between the shooter and the 
stream, and—contrary to what is required in every other 
kind of shooting—hunting behind and not before, or quite 
abreast of, the gun. By this method the fowl, being 
flushed quietly by the dog, which they seem often to mis- 
take for a fox or some other animal of prey, and not hay- 
ing seen or suspected the vicinity of man, rise gently, and 
for the most part fly forward up or down the course of the 
stream, as it may be, presenting a fair cross shot to the 
gun. Should they, by an unusual and unlikely chance, 
rise wild so as not to afford a shot, it is more than proba- 
ble that they will again drop within a reasonable distance, 
when being marked down, they may be, in most instances, 
stalked, so as to insure the getting a close and deadly 
shot. 
With the green-winged teal this result is the most 
likely to occur, as that bird, if flushed by a brookside, 
without discovering its arch-enemy, almost always flies 
quick and strong for some distance up or down the water, 
and then darts down, like a sharp-flying woodcock, most 
generally in a sudden bend or angle of the stream, where 
there is covert, either of trees shadowing the stream, or of 
bushes thick on the banks. 
In this case it is almost certain that he will lie hard 
the second time, and allow of an easy shot. 
Water-spaniels, though, as their name indicates, they 
shine in pursuit of aquatic fowl, may be broke to hunt for 
the foot of the various species of American wood-grouse, 
