. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . with teal, brought thither by thefowlers art, who has scattered the nets over withhemp seed, &c. The decoy ducks begin to pick upthe grain, and the wild fowl quickly imitate theirexample, and thus are secured in the net,—the fowlerburning a piece of turf at his nose, that their exqui-site sense of smelling may not put them on frosty weather these birds come together in flocksof from twenty to thirty, but
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . with teal, brought thither by thefowlers art, who has scattered the nets over withhemp seed, &c. The decoy ducks begin to pick upthe grain, and the wild fowl quickly imitate theirexample, and thus are secured in the net,—the fowlerburning a piece of turf at his nose, that their exqui-site sense of smelling may not put them on frosty weather these birds come together in flocksof from twenty to thirty, but are generally found THE TEAL. 3or scattered. Even birds of one family seldom keeplong together. The flight of the teal, when flushed,it rarely high: it skims along the pool, and gives thegunner a fair chance. It is no difiicult matter to getnear, but you are apt to lose sight of him without aclose and sharp look out, as he often flies away alto-gether. Colonel Hawker says, Of all the prizesthat a wild fowl shooter could wish to meet with, aflock of teal is the very first; and for that reason,probably, it is becoming one of the rarest in the lotteryof Wild Fowl
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