" A Pretie Way to Take a Pye" 5 r 



fishermen doe use to lay on the water long 

 lines of small threede knit full of little 

 corkes, a handfull a sunder on the line, 

 and cut foure square like bigge dice, and 

 so limed, and will spread the saide line 

 afore them on the water, and then with 

 their boats drive them to the sayd line, 

 and so many are taken." 



How often the trout-fisher, 'corning 

 suddenly round the bend of the stream, 

 has seen what he took to be the ring of 

 a rise, and prepared to float his fly over 

 the spot, when a little black head a few 

 yards lower down bobs up, and he says 

 to himself, " Only a blessed dabchick ! " 



Mascall gives what are doubtless ex- 

 cellent recipes for making bird-lime, and 

 finishes his most interesting notes with 

 one entitled 



" A PRETIE WAY TO TAKE A PYE. 



" Ye shall lime a small threede, a foote 

 long or more, and then tie one end about 

 a piece of flesh so big as shee may flie 

 away withall : and at the other end of the 

 thread, tie a shoe buckle and lay the flesh 

 on a post, and let the threede hang downe, 

 and when she flies away with it the threede 

 with the buckle will wrappe round her, 

 and then she will fall, so ye may take 

 them." 



