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Title: The wild-fowler : a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Folkard, Henry Coleman
Subjects: Fowling Waterfowl shooting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London (England) : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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-punts recommended in former chapters inthese pages, are the best means to be employed for getting at them,and afibrd by far the finest sport to the ardent sportsman. But to * But if you cannot attain to it by your industry, you must then buy a bird-call, of wbich tliere are several sorts, and easy to be framed, some of wood, some ofhorn, some of cane, and the Hke.—Cox on Fowling : a.d. 1686. + Now forasmuch as tliis art is a little hard and curious, and that no words inwriting can express the true sound thereof, or show the motions, ordering, orsounds which must proceed from the lij^pes, tongue, and breaths, it is meet that hewhich is studious and would be skilfull in this Art, do goe into the fields wherethese birds do haunt, and there marking their notes, chii-ps, and whistles, practiseas near as he can to counterfeit the same, till he be growne to that exquisite perfect-nesse therein that he may perceive the Birds to gather about him.—Markham^sWhole Art of Fowling : a.d. 1655.
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WILD-FOWL SHOOTING IN THE FENS. 295 those who object to punting-, or prefer the sport on terra firma, andwho reside near the locaHty of fens, or a moor skirting the sea, or anylarge river; there is generally, during winter, some good and certainsport to be had by walking beside the largest of the dykes and delfswhich always abound in such localities; the sportsman, however, mustbe an early riser, and on his ground before daylight, as the birds ge-nerally begin to move off to the open waters at morning-twilight,returning again to their feeding-haunts at eventide. Where thereis good feed and a quiet retreat, wild-fowl will sometimes re-main during the greater part of the day, or until disturbed; and,having once discovered such a spot, they are almost certain toreturn to it again. Many and many are the pairs of duck, mallard, and teal that Ihave brought down with the shoidder-gun before daylight, whenthere was only just sufficient light to see an object clearly enough toshoot it J and wi

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