NORR-69. NK 
BAY-SHOOTING. 
Ar 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 stools with sufficient 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- 
