164 WOODLANDERS AND FIELD FOLK 



naturalists and antiquarians. To show their value, 

 however, in times gone by, it may be mentioned 

 that a corporation has been known to invest trust 

 funds in one, and that a decoy in Suffolk, which sent 

 a ton and a half of wild-fowl to London four times 

 a week, realised 1000 a year. In this 16,800 ducks 

 were captured in a single season. 



