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THE FOWLER IN IRELAND, 



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BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF DECOY. 



back /^j-/ the fowler to the pond, will start off in 

 confusion and fright, the other way, flying and flut- 

 tering up the narrow end of the pipe, the bend of 

 which, as they hasten onwards, deludes them into 

 fancying there is a free passage for escape further 

 on. Once round the curve, they find they are in 

 a rapidly contracting pipe, from which there is no 

 outlet, and at the extreme end of which they are 

 taken, still trying in vain to urge their way forward 

 to escape from the fowler moving up behind them. 

 When the decoy man at the mouth of the pipe finds 



