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Having, by thefe means, allured them to 

 the mouth of the pipe, or canal, leading from 

 the water to a tunnel net, fixed at the head 

 of it ; but hid from the fight, among trees 

 and aquatic plants ; — the difficulties now re- 

 maining are thole of getting them off the 

 bank into the water, without taking wing • 

 and of leading them up the pipe to the fnare 

 which is fet for them. 



To get them off the bank into the water, 

 a dog (the more he is like a fox the better) 

 fleals from behind a fkreen of reeds, which is 

 placed by the fide of the pipe to hide the de- 

 coyman, as well as his dog, until the fignal 

 be given. On feeing the dog, the ducks rufh 

 into the water; where the ixjild-fowl confider 

 themfelves as fafe from the enemy which had 

 afTailed them. 



But among the wild-fowl, a parcel ('per- 

 haps, eight or ten) of decoy-duds have mixed, 

 and were,-probably, inftrumental in bringing 

 them, with greater confidence, on to the bank. 

 As fooH as thefe are in the water, they make 

 for the pipe ; at the head of which they have 

 been conilantly fed ; and in which they have al- 

 ways found an afylum from jhe dog. The 



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