18 THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. 



Dog Jumps The low short screens, that connect the ends of the 

 high screens, placed for the dog to jump over when decoyuig. 



The Yackoop (from Wake up) is the dog-jump between the breast-wall 

 screens. 



Tunnel Net. The extreme end of the pipe, and which is detachable 

 when it contains birds. 



Landing-places are the smooth banks that flank the mouth of each 

 pipe, to tempt the fowl to rest thereon, and which are called the Breast- 

 wall and the Back-wing Landings. When so resting the fowl are said to 

 be " banked," and are then at a negotiable distance for decoying up the 

 pipe near which they happen to sit. 



Decoy Dticks are the tame birds always kept in a Decoy to assist in 

 luring the wild ones up the pipes, as well as to attract them to, and by their 

 fellowship keep them in, the Decoy. 



Food. The grain used for feeding the fowl up the pipes. 



Turf consists of a piece of burning turf or peat, which, with a piece 

 of sharp stick stuck into it as a handle, is kept near the mouth, and 

 breathed on to destroy any smell of the breath or clothes of the operator, 

 when the Decoy is visited or worked. 



I will next describe the aspect of a Decoy, then the construction and 

 working of it. 



I will be as concise as the subject allows, and in order to make my 

 description as useful and comprehensive as possible ; will print the instruc- 

 tions and remarks as distinct as I can. 



For a plan of a pipe illustrating its phraseology see illustration facing 

 page 57. 



What a Decoy consists of. 



A piece of open water of from one to three acres, of a uniform depth 

 of two to three feet, though shelving shallower to the sides, and surrounded 

 by trees and shrubs. 



Attached to this open water are from one to eight curving ditches ; 

 the usual number being three to six, seldom less or more. 



Each ditch has a width at its mouth, under the first hoop, of from 



