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ANAS BOSCHAS. 
From the end of the last shooting*, a person cannot see 
the lake, owing to the bend of the pipe : there is then 
no farther occasion for shelter. Were it not for those 
shootings, the fowl that remain about the mouth of 
the pipe would be alarmed, if the person driving the 
fowl already under the net should be exposed, and would 
become so shy as to forsake the place entirely. The 
first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches the 
pipe, is to take a piece of lighted turf or peat, and hold 
it near his mouth, to prevent the fowl smelling him. 
He is attended by a dog taught for the purpose of 
assisting him : he walks very silently about half way 
up the shootings, where a small piece of wood is thrust 
through the reed fence, which makes an aperture just 
sufficient to see if any fowl are in ; if not, 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, j 
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. 
