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he walks forward to see if any are about the mouth of the pipe. 
If there are, he stops and makes a motion to his dog, and gives 
him a piece of cheese or something to eat ; upon receiving it he 
goes directly to a hole through the reed fence, (No. 1.) and the 
fowl immediately fly off the bank into the water ; the dog returns 
along the bank between the reed fences and the pipe, and comes 
out to his master at the hole (No. 2.). The man now gives him 
another reward, and he repeats his round again, till the fowl are 
attracted by the motions of the dog, and follow him into the mouth 
of the pipe. This operation is called working them. The man 
now retreats farther back, working the dog at different holes till 
the fowl are sufficiently under the net : he now commands his dog 
to lie down still behind the fence, and goes forward to the end of 
the pipe next the lake, where he takes off his hat and gives it a 
REFERENCES TO THE CUT. 
No. 1. Dog’s hole, where he goes to unbank the fowl. 
2. Reed fences on each side of the mouth of the pipe. 
3. Where the decoy-man shows himself to the fowl first, and afterwards at the end of 
every shooting. 
4. Small reed fence to prevent the fowl seeing the dog when he goes to unbank them. 
5. The shootings. 
6. Dog’s holes between the shootings, used when working. 
7. Tunnel net at the end of the pipe.^ 
8. Mouth of the pipe. J 
