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ment, that the wild-fowl, on their firft rufhing 

 into the water, and while they have yet the 

 power of recollecftion, may be induced to be- 

 gin to follow the tame ducks; and for the fame 

 purpofe it ought to be crooked, that its in- 

 ward narrownefs, and nets, may not, in the 

 firft inftance, be perceived. The lower part of 

 a French horn is confidered as the beft form of 

 the pipe of a decoy. 



One material circumftance remains yet to be 

 explained. It is the invariable nature of wild- 

 fowl to take wing with their heads toward the 

 wind ; and it is always imprudent to attempt 

 to take them in a decoy, unlefs the wind blow 

 down the pipe : for, while their enemy is to 

 leeward of them, they have lefs fcruple to go 

 up the pipe, making fure of an efcape by their 

 wings : but what is of flill more confequence, 

 if the wind fet up the pipe, when they take 

 wing under the canopy net, fome ef them 

 would probably efcape (a circumftance always 

 to be dreadedj, and thofe which fell again into 

 the water would fall, of courfe, wdth their 

 heads toward the wind, and would, with greater 

 difficulty, be driven into the tunnel. 



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