202 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



following the clog, and utterly mar success. The 

 easiest and the largest takes are invariably the 

 strange and wildest birds ; and I would sooner 

 have to do with a foreign flight just arrived, 

 than with ducks indigenous to the surrounding 

 country. 



It is my intention, the first opportunity I have, 

 of arranging a 'taking decoy," to do away with 

 the use of the dog, and, in place of the dog, to 

 substitute stuffed animals of different kinds and 

 colours, such as the fox, the polecat or ferret, 

 the stoat, and various coloured cats, so that there 

 should be no sameness in the decoying object. 

 A stout wire running clean round through the first 

 two holes, and tlie same to the next two, and so 

 on, will enable the stuffed decoy to pass round 

 the two holes, and appear at the first hole again 

 if the ducks have hesitated to come on. Or 

 if the first represented ^^guy" does not draw, 

 then it can be changed to another till the desired 

 effect is produced. 



A few rollers for the wire to run on would 

 suffice, and the guy could be attached by 

 small clasps, whicli would allow of its being taken 

 on and ofi". Thus, with this wire so made to 



