BREAKING OPEN A " WAKE." 



CHAPTER V 



DECOYS AND HOW TO USE THEM 



And as a skilful fowler birds employs, 



Which by their well-known form or treach'rous noise 



Allure their fellows and invite to share 



Their fate, sealed from a hidden lair. 



Vaniere Revised. 



DECOYS are, without doubt, of great assistance to the wild- 

 fowler, under certain circumstances, but they are now much 

 more used in America where sportsmen assert that nothing 

 goes so far towards making an expert duck-shooter as a full 

 knowledge and the proper use of decoys than in the British 

 Isles. In fact, one rarely hears of decoys being used at 

 all, except in Broadland and a few other out-of-the-way 

 fen-lands. 



The ways of utilising decoys to advantage are many, and 

 they vary according to the districts and localities in which 

 they are worked. 



In the numerous books on wildfowl-shooting already 

 published, most of these methods have been more or less 



