45O LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER xxvm 



dangerous climb, the decoys appear leaning over, or 

 not fairly head to wind when seen from the ground, 

 and rather than alter them they are left as they are. 



I give sketches of a jointed rod on which to hoist up 

 the decoys (figs. 94, 95, and 96, previous page) ; the 

 small iron crooks for hooking over a bough easily 



FIG. 96. 



Shows the small iron claw-like projections, 2 ft. below the decoy, for hooking 

 over twigs or small branches to balance the rod and its decoy in a right direc- 

 tion before securing it. These claws project 1 in., and are sharp-edged on 

 their under sides. 



enable the decoy to be set in any direction according 

 to the wind, without its being liable to swing round. 

 A man can either put the rods together in the tree, 

 and lift them above him as a sweep does his chimney 

 brush length by length, or he can pull them up by 

 a string from the ground ready jointed.* 



* A few leather straps of different lengths are very handy for 

 firmly securing the sticks, on which the decoys are fixed, to their tree, 

 and much simpler to fasten and loosen than string. 



