September, 1922 
423 
merciless to the birds and indifferent to 
the rights of fellow-hunters. I remem- 
ber one kindly old gentleman who shot 
cleanly and well till he reached his limit 
of plover. Then he resigned his blind 
and vanished across the marsh. I heard 
of another who boasted in the village of 
having shot seventy plover ! So it is 
in every sport, but I sometimes think the 
extremes of sportsmanship are more 
obvious in shooting than in any other 
game. I have met hunters who scruple 
at nothing, and on the other hand — and 
more generally — men who are generous 
and sportsmanlike at every opportunity. 
“How many did you get?” “Any 
‘winters’ ?” The marsh echoed with 
cries of camaraderie. But not for many 
days. The plover soon learned to break- 
fast elsewhere and not in that deadly 
ambuscade. They flew higher and 
} farther, to the more remote marshes. 
Indefatigables pursued them, but it was 
hard work, and soon the marsh was 
lonely again save for an occasional 
solitary hunter who patiently tracked 
them. I was one of those. I confess 
that I am a somewhat merciful hunter, 
though I have hunted incessantly since 
my fifteenth year. I have little desire 
or sympathy for the wholesale pump-gun 
rattle of musketry; the type of hunting 
which aims to bag a record number of 
birds in an hour. I prefer to study the 
birds’ habits; to trace them skilfully, if 
) I can ; to take them always in flight, and 
; to come home with a well-earned, if 
small, bag of birds. 
Only this morning I am back from 
my best day of plover-shooting. I rose 
at five and had a cup of coffee, then I 
shouldered my gun and a sack, contain- 
ing a camp-chair and a half-dozen de- 
coys. A brisk walk along the scented 
beach in the September air and a short 
tramp across the marsh. I lost an iron 
! rod for one of my decoys and I spent a 
little time in finding and fitting a twig 
in the bird. Then I sat in the blind 
watching for plover, but also for all the 
stirring life of the marsh. A sea-gull 
drifted over. Far off on the beach two 
ducks rose and circled far inland. A 
flock of sand-peeps, dapper little birds, 
dropped suddenly into shallow water and 
with a great chatter strutted about my 
decoys. As if to convince me that they 
had penetrated my fraud, one of them 
lighted with perfect impudence on the 
very crest of a decoy. A pompous heron 
deigned to survey my blind and fifty 
yards avray stalked about and regarded 
the sand-peeps with solemn displeasure. 
YJ^ITH hardly a warning, out of no- 
” where, flew a flock of eight plover. 
They veered sharply as they caught a 
glimpse of me, but came down in an 
adjacent lagoon, just out of gunshot. 
Stealthily I gave pursuit. Nearer and 
nearer I crept. My gun barked twice. I 
was lucky enough to make a double on 
their rise. The others flew some two 
hundred yards distance and waited. 
Again I waded through the marsh, over 
a straw pile, through a ditch, and sank 
dowm in the tall grass. In all I bagged 
six of this flock, three of them “winter” 
plover. 
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