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THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. 



his attention, and these, with the Duck decoy, would provide ample employ- 

 ment for the shortened days. During frosty weather, constant attention 

 was required at night, after the decoy had 'risen,' to break and remove the 

 ice, thus keeping the water open as an attraction for the Ducks, without 

 which they would desert the decoy in hard weather. Subsequently Hall 

 set up as a cow-leech, and ended his days as a dealer in second-hand books 

 at Lynn, his 'Antiquarian Library' being situated near the 'Globe Hotel,' 

 in a street leading from the Tuesday Market-place to Common Staithe 

 Quay." 



The Author makes no apology for this dissertation on Fens and Fen- 

 men, as both are so closely connected with the subject of Decoys. 



Decoys in use. 



Ashby. 



Decoys not in use. 



Bourne. 



Deeping Fen (5). 



Cowbit. 



Fleet. 



Dowsby. 



Aslackby. 



Millyard Farm. 



Sempringham Fen (3). 



South Kyme. 



North Kyme. 



Timberland. 



Nocton Hall. 



Friskney (5). 



Hagnaby. 



Wainfleet St. Mary's (2). 



Wrangle (3). 



Leake. 



Skellingthorpe. 



Burton Hall. 



South Carlton. 



South Kelsey. 



Farlsthorpe. 



Broughton. 



Keadby. 



Great Cotes. 



Ashby Decoy, 6^ miles WNVV. of Brigg, in the parish of Bottesford, 

 4^ miles S\V. of Frodingham Station, on the Grimsby and Doncaster 



