sewell

sewell nWhere any open place intervened, they made use of a sort of sewell, made of narrow strips of birch rind, tied together in the / form of the wing of a paper kite: each of these was suspended from the end of a stick, stuck into the ground in an oblique position, that it might play with every breeze of wind. These sewells were placed at no great distance from each other, and the effect produced by their motion, was considerably heightened by the noise of the strips, when they struck against each other. By these means, the deer were deterred by the sewells from attempting to enter the woods at the open places, and the fences were too high to be overleaped, and too strong to be forced.PRINTED ITEM DNE-citW.J.KIRWIN DEC 1972 JH DEC 1972Used IUsed I1Used Isewel, shewell, DEER FENCE, scarecrow, ~ stick/twine