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water close to the edge and on the ice nearby, 

 ourselves in the boat twenty yards back into 

 the ice-field and to leeward of the decoys. 

 Throw the sail over us and over the boat. Grip 

 a corner of our covering in your left hand and 

 carry it across you, then your gun in the right 

 hand, lean back in the stern of the boat with 

 just your eye uncovered, keeping a sharp look- 

 out always, and the ''old iron" where it can be 

 thrown quickly into action. Such an arrange- 

 ment makes a blind hardly to be suspected by 

 the wisest campaigner and the ducks will often 

 come in quite near. A gunner so placed will at 

 times get good shooting when a competitor on 

 shore cannot get a shot. Try it some time when 

 you see them passing every point and ledge out 

 of gun-shot. Another point; make sure your 

 decoys are good ones. Our friend is very dis- 

 criminating in his tastes and prefers to be 

 fooled artistically. 



Got enough, have you? Well, after the sun 

 is up the flight flags. The main body is on some 

 inshore feeding ground, and unless some mis- 

 guided mortal will try to ''scull" them we may 

 as well quit. I am nearly frozen! How are 

 you? And we are both ready to pull the boat 



