THE WOODCOCK. 



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that " one Swallow does not make a summer nor one Wood- 

 cock a winter." l 



In the reign of Queen Mary the Scottish Parliament 

 fixed the price of the " woodde-cokke " at " four pennies." 2 



1 Borderer's Table Book, vol. vii. p. 215. 



2 Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James I. and his Royal 

 Successors, by Sir Thomas Murray of Glendook, Kt. and Bt., 1681. 



