The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Hertford

The Hoo, near Welwyn.

Lancashire.-Hale, near Prescot.

Lincolnshire.-Ashby, near Brigg.

Montgomeryshire. - Lymore Hall, near Montgomery.

Norfolk.-Westwick, near North Walsham; Southacre, near Swaffham; Wretham, Didlington, and Merton, all near Thetford.

Northampton. - Aldwinckle, near Oundle; Borough Fen, near Peakirk.

Nottingham. Haughton, near Walesby; Park Hall, near Mansfield; Ossington, near Tuxford.

Pembroke. Orielton Park, near Pembroke.

Shropshire. Oakley Park, Broomfield, near Ludlow; Sundorne Castle, near Shrewsbury.

Somerset. Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury; Shapwick, near Sedgemoor; King's Sedgemoor, near Walton.

Suffolk. Iken, near Saxmundham; Chillesford, Back Screens. - [See SCREENS.] Back-wing-landing.- [See LANDINGS.] Bank (v.).-Said of ducks coming to rest on the sides of the pool.

Breast-wall screens. - [See SCREENS.] 'Coy. The fowler's abbreviation for Decoy.

Decoy-ducks.-Birds which are daily accustomed to be fed by the decoy-man in the pipe (q.v.), and therefore swim up without fear followed by the wild ones. They are usually halfbred wild ducks. Dog-jump. The low barrier between two screens, over which the dog works. Usually about 2 ft. 6 in. high, and of like width.

Draught of pipe. - That portion of the pool which narrows to a bay at the entrance to a pipe (q.v.).

Drift. An attempt to draw the fowl up the pipe.

DECOYS] Elbow. The point at which a pipe curves.

Head-show. The spot at which the decoy-man shows himself behind the ducks, in order to drive them further up the pipe into which they have been lured.

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