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THE NEFARIOUS POT-HUNTER. 



on his back in it, completely out of sight, and around it are 

 placed the decoys. It is extremely tiresome work, but very destruc- 



to tht- birds. They float down the stream when shot and are 



•d up from a boat stationed below. It is a wholesale murdering 

 sort of dung and has little "sport" about it. The "night reflector" 

 19 quite as bad. It consists of a large reflector behind a common 

 naphtha lamp and mounted upon the bow of a boat. The latter is 



•d out into the stream, where the ducks are "bedded" for the 

 night, and the birds, fascinated by the light, swim to it from every 

 side and bob against the boat in helpless confusion. The number 

 ured depends only on the caliber of the gun. From 

 twenty to thirty ducks to each shot fired is a common experience. 

 The hunter who uses one of these reflectors may succeed in getting 

 into half a dozen "beds" in a night. Another thing he sometimes 

 succeeds in is getting a charge of shot in his body from some indig- 

 nant sportsman on shore. If a rifle is handy and any one chances 

 to be up and about at the hour, no hesitation is fell at having a 

 crack at the "pot-hunter's" nefarious light. 



Accepting an invitation for a lurk shooting at I 



