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should be so rash as to exhibit itself in this fashion, the 

 whole neighborhood would rise in arms to kill it or chase 

 it away. What few ducks there are hide in the swamps 

 and venture into the ponds only at dusk and during the 

 night."* 



Having described a flock of ducks, containing many 

 of the best species, which he observed near the Harvard 

 bridge, between Boston and Cambridge, and which were 

 perfectly at their ease, because they knew they were in a 

 safe place, Mr. Job says; "There is no earthly reason, 

 especially in regions where wild fowl are somewhat nu- 

 merous, why this sort of thing might not become a 

 regular and normal condition, to the manifold delight of 

 the land owner and the public at large." 



All that is necessary to bring about such desirable con- 

 ditions is for the people to learn how and where they can 

 have wild ducks in abundance as ornaments or for sport 

 or for profit and that it will pay them in more ways than 

 one to look after the fowl properly. 



The Rev. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, in a lecture on 

 "Wild Duck Breeding for Sport," published in The Shoot- 

 ing Times and British Sportsman (Dec. 8, 1906), says: 



"It is not of day dreams in the crowded city or railway 

 carriage that I am now going to speak, but of simple, and 

 at the same time practical, facts, which any land owner or 

 businesslike keeper who has at command a lake, pond or 

 slow flowing stream can turn to profit in increasing the 

 sport which the acres in his possession will supply. Wild 

 duck breeding and training for shooting purposes are 

 quite simple matters — there are no mysteries in the un- 

 dertaking. It is, indeed, so easy that the wonder is that 



•The Amateur Sportsman, March, 1909. 



