their necks when all is ready the are roused from the pond and as all wild fowl rise against the wind the poles in that quarter are and fly up with the at the instant the begin to leave the of the water so as to meet them in their first ascent and they are thus beat down by hundreds the other method of french origin is the system where the himself with a number of made tame k the wild fowl are in a state of they will not follow the call of the towards the like that in which fish are caught in in such case a little dog is brought into he passes backward and forward between the reed hedges in which there are little holes both for the man to see and for the httle dog to pass through this the eye of the wild fowl who prompted by curiosity advance towards this little animal while he all the time keeps playing among the nearer and nearer the covered over by the sticks and till they follow him too far to sometimes the dog will not attract their attention till a red handkerchief or something as attractive be put about him the ducks are taught to under the water as soon as the rest are driven in the wild duck thousands on thousands are brought to market by these modes while of ancient and modem modes of we cannot avoid taking notice of that which is said to be the chinese method of these birds it equals the french for ingenuity the italian method of putting out their eyes is too cruel for our english habits but this chinese method might be followed without to humanity whenever the sees a number of ducks settled in any particular of water he sends off two or three to float among them these being made hollow swim on the surface of the water and on one pool there may be sometimes seen twenty or thirty of them the fowl are at first a little shy of coming near but by degrees they approach and as birds grow familiar with so the ducks gather around the and amuse themselves by their bills against them at last the is satisfied he can deceive them he puts his head into one of these hollow and making holes to breathe and see through he slowly into the water keeping his body under and nothing but his head above its surface he thus gets in among the wild fowl while they long used to see take not the least fright while the enemy is in the midst of them and an enemy he is for ever as he approaches a fowl he it by the legs and it under the water there he natural hi t by of the it under his aiid goes to the next till he has loaded himself when he has got his quantity without ever attempting to disturb the rest of the fowls on the pool he slowly moves off again and in this manner pays the flock a visit several times in the day this if true is by no means a method of duck murder and so far to be approved of the young reader will find in s industrious experiences some useful hints on wild duck shooting for our parts we have not been without our attachment to the diversion give us in any part of the world in the eastern of our own country in france or amid the hills of scotland where the lie like among the hills � some far off solitary pool or lake � clear water only in the centre and rushes thickly round � there might we not hope to see plentiful as duck � who knows � wild and from our crouching station and there might we not again amidst the and and and bustle of a first arrival do execution as of the � this the smallest of the duck species is also the most delicate and the most esteemed it is unfortunately more rare than the others but the numbers that come to this country vary greatly from season to season the about twelve or more and may measure about fifteen inches in length the male bird has the according to the received standard of the beauty among the tribe the bill is black the head and upper parts of the neck are of a bright bay the whole of its head and wings are very splendid the female has the same beautiful green patch on her wings as the male bird a few of these birds breed with us some years back great numbers were taken in but the is much reduced of late the internal structure of this bird is peculiar it has at the end of the adapted as it is said to the peculiar sounds it this is also the case of many others of the wild fowl tribe as we have mentioned in our account of the wild swan and goose the s nest is formed of rushes and lined with down and so placed as to swing to and rise and fall with the motions of the wind and water some authors speak of varieties of this bird as summer c is clearly wrong in his description of a bird of a much greater size in it as a its eggs are of the size of those of the pigeon they are white with brown spots the used to be made after this � where a pond by a wood is found the is to be raised this should be planted round with if possible in the event of the wood not clothing it three or four pipes or channels are then to be dug broad towards the pond and point like towards the end these are to be covered with supported by sticks bending from one side to another and 