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to say, " I liave adopted a new system of ' jagt ' with the 

 great flocks of ducks. I load guns of large calibre with 

 heavy shot, slugs in short, and row in a boat towards the 

 fowl, and when they take Aving, I flro into the thick of 

 them, and for the most part several have fallen." 



THE FOGEL-REF. 



Many devices, besides those sjioken of in my former 

 works, are had recourse to in Scandinavia for the capture 

 of water fowl. One is called the Fogel-Bef, and is thus 

 described by Linnseus, in his "Olandska Eesa," 17-il,p. 203. 

 " It consists of a very long line, to which are attached 

 wooden pegs, at a distance of about three feet apart, 

 to fasten it to the ground. On both sides of each peg 

 is a black horsehair snare, twenty inches in length, and 

 at its base a piece of a quill, to keep it in its projier 

 position. The 'Fogel-Ref is jilaced along the shore, 

 so that Avhen ducks and other small fowl are making their 

 way from the water to dry land they get entangled in it." 



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THE LIXTU LAUTA. 



In parts of Lapland the so-called lAntu-Lcmta, a 

 Finnish invention I believe, is in common use for th(> 



