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provided for the ducks they are always less wild and 

 less suspicious, and the shooting is accordingly much 

 better. 



Canvas-backs are still shot from batteries or sink- 

 boxes, but since my shooting from these contrivances 

 has been at scaups — the black-heads — and the shooting 

 is the same, I defer the description of this method of 

 pursuit, saying only here, as I shall say again later, 

 that this form of sport should everywhere be prohib- 

 ited, as it is now in many States. 



