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are in ; if not, he walks forward to see if any are 

 about the mouth of the pipe. If there are, he stops 

 and makes a motion to his dog, and gives him a piece 

 of cheese or something to eat ; upon receiving it he 

 goes directly to a hole through the reed fence, and 

 the fowl immediately fly off the bank into the water ; 

 the dog returns along the bank between the reed 

 fences and the pipe, and comes out to his master 

 at another hole. The man now gives him another 

 reward, and he repeats his round again, till the fowl 

 are attracted by the motions of the dog, and follow 

 him into the mouth of the pipe. This operation is 

 called working them. The man now retreats farther 

 back, working the dog at different holes till the fowl 

 are sufficiently under the net : he now commands 

 his dog to lie down still behind the fence, and 

 goes forward to the end of the pipe next the lake, 

 where he takes off his hat, and gives it a wave be- 

 tween the shooting : all the fowl under the net 

 can see him, but none that are in the lake can. The 

 fowl that are in sight fly forward, and the man 

 runs forward to the next shooting and waves his 

 hat, and so on, driving them along till they come 

 to the tunnel net, where they creep in : when they 

 are all in he gives the net a twist, so as to prevent 

 their getting back : he then takes the net off from 

 the end of the pipe with what fowl he may have 

 caught, and takes them out one at a time, and dis- 

 locates their necks, and hangs the net on again, and 

 all is ready for working again. In this manner five 

 or six dozen have been taken at one drift. When 

 the wind blows directly in or out of the pipes, the 



