. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . **A. t*M TILTING THE GUN FOR A FLYING SHOT. To face page 46 A Night of Wild Fowling 47 their natural size. A gull comes flapping over on thehunt, for a dead or wounded bird is a nice meal for him. From a bunch of dead flags with a scape-scape-scape upsprings a snipe, with that twist-and-turn-about flightpeculiar to himself and his relatives. He is not fired at,for if there are any fowl in hiding anywhere in his lineof flight that cry will move them. It has done so. Three mallards rise from a dyke ; theyare low down, and fly st
. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . **A. t*M TILTING THE GUN FOR A FLYING SHOT. To face page 46 A Night of Wild Fowling 47 their natural size. A gull comes flapping over on thehunt, for a dead or wounded bird is a nice meal for him. From a bunch of dead flags with a scape-scape-scape upsprings a snipe, with that twist-and-turn-about flightpeculiar to himself and his relatives. He is not fired at,for if there are any fowl in hiding anywhere in his lineof flight that cry will move them. It has done so. Three mallards rise from a dyke ; theyare low down, and fly straight to where I am standing bythe willows ; three in a line, their green heads glisteningin the sun—for it is morning—and the red-brown of theirbreasts is showing distinctly. The}^ are near enough now,I think—two of them, at any rate. Bang ! Quack, quack ! A twist and turn oftheir necks and bodies tells that they have been hit, butthey do not fall. It serves one right, for it is almostuseless firing at fowl coming right at you ; the breastfeathers are so thick
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