JANUARY. 



lar contrivance of package, ready dressed to all 

 parts of England. There is an account, illustrated 

 by an engraving, in the second volume of Hone's 

 " Every-Day Book," of a singular mode of killing 

 larks, at this season, in some parts of France and 

 England. 



In France they use what is called a miroir, or 

 twirler. This is a piece of mahogany highly po- 

 lished, or a piece of common wood with bits of 

 looking-glass fixed in it. It is fixed on an upright 

 spindle, and twirled by pulling a string ; and the 

 larks, as they fly over, seeing the glitter of it, are 

 irresistibly attracted by it, hover over it, and are 

 shot in abundance. However frequently shot at, 

 the survivors still are attracted by the twirler. 

 Hone's correspondent says that a friend of his shot 

 six dozen before breakfast, without a boy, as is the 

 common plan, to pull the twirler for him ; and that 

 it is not only the great amusement of the gentlemen 

 in France in winter, but that ladies on fine, dry, 

 frosty mornings go out in numbers to watch this 

 sport ; and as many as ten or a dozen parties are, 

 at one time, firing about five hundred yards apart, 

 and yet the larks continue coming. 



In England the Dunstable people have a similar 

 invention, which is called a larking-glass, which is 

 fixed on a pole and twirled, and the larks corne 

 darting down to it in great numbers, and a net is 

 drawn over them. Besides great quantities being 

 thus taken, and also morning and evening with 

 trammelling nets, others in severe weather are 



