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not by tlieir long noses, but still by their hills. 

 In this anatomical reference I intend no insult 

 to the snipe, for his bill was handed to him from 

 his birth. We make our bills some time after 

 we have run away from our mother's leading- 

 strino^s ! 



If it can be so managed in regard to a larger 

 space necessary for the shooting decoy as com- 

 pared with the one for taking fowl, that also 

 should be sheltered by willows and trees as well 

 as banks. There should be, however, a succession 

 of pools of broad waters for the shooting wliere 

 there are no lakes nor rivers, so that the fowl 

 may fly from pool to pool, and each pool thus 

 afford a succession of sport, the fowl flying either 

 way, thus permitting the beat to be reversed. 



In some situations gazes may be made for 

 each gun. Gazes are small huts of v»'attled 

 hurdles, or of boughs and furze, and tlie fowl 

 may be driven over these gazes when the guns 

 cannot approach them on tlie water. Ducks are 

 more easily directed b}' the driver than teak 

 When Lords Malmesbury and Ashley shot my 

 decoy with me during the winter of 1870, though 

 there were from three to four liundred teal on 



