in the direction where the sound seemed to indicate that they were thickest. The Brent geese were much more day feeders than the widgeon, and we often got shots by laying the punt among the seaweed, in a position where the geese would come past on the tide* But such shots rarely killed more than three or four, as, though the geese seemed thick on the water, it is only when they are crowded on a small patch of mud that you can really make a heavy shot.
This form of shooting is now hardly known to English sportsmen, though in the days of Hawker and Folkard it was followed as a means of living by many fishermen on the south and east coasts. I have often thought that if an electric motor could be devised, sufficiently noiseless and light enough to be adapted to a gunning punt, great sport might still be had. But there are few places m the world where it could have such a good chance as on the Mer de Morbihan.
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