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DUCK SHOOTING. 



or four board boat, on rather a simple, home-made 

 model. It has no ribs or knees, and only one thwart, 

 with a seat in the stern for a paddler, the latter seat 

 coming pretty well up flush with the gunwale. This 

 boat paddles easily on the river and punts well on the 

 marsh. It is a good deal like just a plain boat, but it 

 is a very well-made, cheap boat. 



The shooters at Grand Calumet Heights Club, on 

 Lake Michigan, sometimes use an odd craft in shooting 



TOLLESTON BOAT. 



ducks on the open lake. On a low-lying platform, 

 something like the Koshkonong fiatboat, they build a 

 deep cockpit, or roofless cabin, whose walls are about 

 3 feet high. About the sides of this they arrange 

 brush or material for a blind, and anchor the boat out 

 in deep water, the decoys being arranged by means of 

 another boat. This craft is called the "Merganser" 

 boat. It will take a heavy sea, but is unwieldy and 

 unmanageable. 



Over on the Canada line they have two or three dis- 



