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ANAS BOSCilAS. 
From the end of the last shootinif, a person cannot ■ 
the lake, owing to the bend of the pipe : there is ta ^ 
no farther occasion for shelter. Were it not for tb*’^ 
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shootings, the fowl that remain about the mouth 
the pipe would be alarmed, if the person driving •'.'j 
’ lid he exposed, and j 
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fowl already under the net should I 
become so shy as to forsake the place entirely, 
first thing the decoy-man does when he approache: 
pipe, is to take a piece of lighted turf or peat, and ha 
it near his moutli, to prevent the fowl smelling h'* .■ 
He is attended by a dog taught for tlie purpose 
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assisting him : he walks very silently about half 
up the shootings, where a small piece of wood is tb>''^ 
through the reed fence, which makes an aperture 
sufficient to see if any fowl are in ; if not, he 
forward to see if any are about the mouth of the pjl. 
If there arc, he stops and makes a motion to his 
and gives him a piece of cheese or something to 
upon receiving it he goes directly to a hole through ^ 
reed fence, (No. 1,) and the fowl immediately v, 
the baidi into the water; the dog returns along tlie h^*'^! 
between the reed fences and the pipe, and conics.^^ 
to his master at the hole (No. 2.) The man no"' 
him another reward, and he repeats his round ‘‘Sj, 
till the fowl are attracted by the motions of 
and follow him into the mouth of the pipe. ^ y 
operation is called working them. The man 
retreats farther back, working the dog at different I'C^^. 
till the fowl are sufficiently under the nett he 
commands his dog to lie down still behind the I®** 
