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ter, and especially in frost at their evening 

 flight, at which time they fly about and are 

 more in motion than at any other time, is to 

 watch for them in the dusk of the evening at 

 the margins of little pools and springs where 

 they come to feed ; then they may either be 

 shot whilst on the wing, or at the moment in 

 which they alight on the water : when the 

 frost is very severe, and the pools and rivers 

 are frozen up, they must be watched for in 

 places where there are warm springs and wa- 

 ters which do not freeze. The sport is much 

 more certain, because the ducks are confined 

 to those places in order to procure herbs, 

 which are almost the only food that remains 

 for them at this period. 



HOW TO TRAIN A WATER-DOG, 

 AND THE USE THEREOF. 



I shall begin with his colour, and although 

 some attribute much to that, yet experience 

 lets us know they are uncertain observations. 

 Your dog may be any colour and yet excel* 



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