. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . them by the Decoy Man will sometimes allow the haunt of Dun-Birds tobe so great that the whole surface of the pond shall be coveredwith them previous to his attempting to take one. Upon suchoccasions, he bespeaks all the assistants he can get to completethe slaughter by breaking their necks. W hen all is ready, theDun-Birds are roused from the pond; and, as all Wild Fowlrise against the wind, the poles in that quarter are unpinned,and fly up with the n
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . them by the Decoy Man will sometimes allow the haunt of Dun-Birds tobe so great that the whole surface of the pond shall be coveredwith them previous to his attempting to take one. Upon suchoccasions, he bespeaks all the assistants he can get to completethe slaughter by breaking their necks. W hen all is ready, theDun-Birds are roused from the pond; and, as all Wild Fowlrise against the wind, the poles in that quarter are unpinned,and fly up with the nets at the instant the Dun-Birds begin toleave the surface of the water, so as to meet them in their firstascent, and are thus beat down by hundreds. At the pond ofMr. Burton, at Goldanger, in Essex, as many Poachards have t 292 lewis AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. been taken at one drop as filled a wagon, so as to require fourstout horses to carry them away; and the lower Birds in thepens have been known to be killed and pressed entirely flatfrom the numbers of their companions heaped above them bythe fotal stoppage of the poles and nets. {. P f ^
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