Excerpt from British Duck Decoys of to-Day, 1918 The name decoy is said to be of Dutch extraction, and is an abbreviation of the word Endekooy, i.e., the duck cage. We see in some old books it is called duck coy or duck cage, and has been contracted into decoy, or it may be derived from de coy, the cage; it is also written duck-koy. Decoys are said to have been first made in England by Sir William Woodhouse in the reign of James I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...
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Excerpt from British Duck Decoys of to-Day, 1918 The name decoy is said to be of Dutch extraction, and is an abbreviation of the word Endekooy, i.e., the duck cage. We see in some old books it is called duck coy or duck cage, and has been contracted into decoy, or it may be derived from de coy, the cage; it is also written duck-koy. Decoys are said to have been first made in England by Sir William Woodhouse in the reign of James I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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