. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . hus bafiling every effort of themost skilful Dogs to overtake them; and the sagacious animalsthat are trained to this kind of Sport are perfectly aware of thiscircumstance, as they seldom or ever show any disposition topursue wounded Canvass-Backs—for they know full well, fromhard-taught experience, the utter impossibility of their beingable to catch them, no matter how fast they may swim or howdeep they may dive in the pursuit. MODES OF TAKING CANVASS-BACKS.
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . hus bafiling every effort of themost skilful Dogs to overtake them; and the sagacious animalsthat are trained to this kind of Sport are perfectly aware of thiscircumstance, as they seldom or ever show any disposition topursue wounded Canvass-Backs—for they know full well, fromhard-taught experience, the utter impossibility of their beingable to catch them, no matter how fast they may swim or howdeep they may dive in the pursuit. MODES OF TAKING CANVASS-BACKS. In detailing the various schemes and describing the innumer-able contrivances that the ingenuity of man has prompted himto adopt for the purpose of circumventing and destroying thismuch-prized Duck, we will, ere finishing the subject, have prettymuch exhausted the whole material appertaining to Wild FowlShooting; as it is to the taking of this particular variety thatthe energies of the whole shooting craft are devoted in thoseportions of the country where they, in common with numberlessother Ducks, congregate. CANVASS-BACK. 259. TOLING DUCKS. We will first speak of a most curious process resorted to bythe Shooters on the Chesapeake Bay, at the beginning of theseason, for the purpose of decoying Canvass-Backs from the flatswithin gunshot of the Sportsmen, who lie concealed from obser-vation behind blinds erected all along the shore at convenientintervals. This practice we have already described in our edi-tion of Youatt, under the head of Newfoundland Dog, and ashere put down will transfer it to these pages, with some addi-tional observations. This may not be an inappropriate place to speak of this won-derful mode of decoying Ducks, termed ToJinrj, so extensivelypractised upon the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, wherethe Canvass-Backs and Red-Heads resort in such numerousquantities every Autumn. A species of Mongrel Water-Dog,or often any common cur, is taught to run back
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