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soil taken out to make the trench forms the wall between it 

 and the water. If this wall or bank is sufficiently high for a 

 shooter or observer to walk behind and watch the birds with- 

 out being seen, it answers the purpose required ; if not, or if 

 the soil is such that the wall does not answer the purpose 

 named, then reed screens are made and fixed up in the weak 

 places. The screen may also be continued for part of the way 

 (just to cover the corners where fowl would hardly ever light 



when coming in at flight time) along the western shore and 

 quite close to the water's edge, so that a keeper can steal 

 softly down and throw in the maize or Indian corn and 

 acorns without disturbing any of the wildfowl which may be 

 in the pool. 



The rough sketch Ground Plan shows one of these decoy 

 pools, which was artificially made from a bare marsh and has 

 now been most successfully worked for a number of years. 



