. The American sportsman: . em by the wing. A decoy-man will sometimes allow thehaunt of dun-birds to be so great that the whole surface of thepond shall be covered with them previous to his attempting to takeone. Upon such occasions, he bespeaks all the assistants he canget, to complete the slaughter by breaking their necks. When allis ready, the dun-birds are roused from the pond; and, as all -vyildfowl rise against the wind, the poles in that quarter are unpinned,and fly up with the nets at the instant the dun-birds begin to leave 356 LEWISS AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. the surface of the water, so
. The American sportsman: . em by the wing. A decoy-man will sometimes allow thehaunt of dun-birds to be so great that the whole surface of thepond shall be covered with them previous to his attempting to takeone. Upon such occasions, he bespeaks all the assistants he canget, to complete the slaughter by breaking their necks. When allis ready, the dun-birds are roused from the pond; and, as all -vyildfowl rise against the wind, the poles in that quarter are unpinned,and fly up with the nets at the instant the dun-birds begin to leave 356 LEWISS AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. the surface of the water, so as to meet them in their first ascent,and are thus beat down by hundreds. At the pond of Mr. Burton,at Goldanger, in Essex, as many poaehards have been taken at onedrop as filled a wagon, so as to require four stout horses to carrythem away; and the lower birds in the pens have been known tobe killed and pressed entirely flat from the numbers of their com-panions heaped above them by the fatal stoppage of the poles
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