S?o DECOY S. 41. 



wild-ducks follow; while the dog keeps dri- 

 ving behind ; and, by that means, takes off 

 their attention from the trap they arc en- 

 tering. 



As foon as the decoyman, who is all the 

 while obferving the operation through peep- 

 holes in the reed-lkreen, fees the entire fhoal 

 under a canopy net, which covers and inclofes 

 the upper part of the pipe, he fhews himfelf ; 

 v'hen the wild-fowl inftantly take wing ; but 

 their wings meeting with an impervious net, 

 mftead of a natural canopy formed of reeds 

 and bullrufhes, they fall again into the water, 

 and, being afraid to recede, the man being 

 clofe behind them, pu(h forward into the tail 

 of the tunnel-net which terminates the 

 pipe *. 



This being the ufe of the pipe, its form be- 

 comes obvious. It ought to refemble the out- 

 let of a natural brook, or, a natural inlet or 

 creek of the principal water. The mouth 

 ought to be fpacious, and free from confine- 



* I was told by the proprietor of a decoy, who is him- 

 felf fond of the diverlion, and whofe veracity I have no 

 reafon to doubt, that he has, la this way, caught " nine 



dozen at a pufu." 



ment. 



