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Horn to take aU manner offmall Birds 

 with Bird-Lime. 



•IN cold weather, that is to fay, in Ftoft or Snow, all 

 1 forts offmall Birds do congregate in Flocks,as Larks, 



StZcm, &c. all thefe but the LarKio perch on Trte 

 orBulhesas well as feed on the ground If you per- 

 ceive they refort about your Houfe or Fields ad, acent. 

 then ufe your Bird-lime that is well prepared, and not 

 over oUi'^order it after this manner ; Take an Earthen 

 diO. and put the Bird-lime into it , and add thereunto 

 feme fre(hLard,or Capons-greafe,pu.t,ng an ounce o 

 either to a quarter of a pound of Bitd-lime . then let- 

 dngt over the fire, let it melt gently together i bu 

 tit not boil by any means, for if you do you w.l 

 take away the ftrength of the Bird-lime, and fo fpoil it. 

 Havinrthos prepared it, get a quantity of Wheat-cars 

 as many as you think you (hall conveniently ufe, and 

 cutT Straw about a foot long befides the Ears i hen 

 froti the bottom of the Ears to the middle of the Straw 

 mTi about fix inches : the Lrmc muft be warm when 

 TOU lime the ftiaw, that fo it may run thin upon the 

 Traw and therefore the lefs difcernable , and confe- 

 auentlv not fufpefled by the Birds. 

 ^ Havng thus got your Lim'd-ftraws in this tnanner 

 leadv RO into thifield adjacent toyourhoufe,and carry 

 a bag of Chaff and thieOit Eats, and fcatter thefe toge- 

 {h« twenty yards wide,(it is beft in a Snow]then take 

 heLimM-earsandftickthem up and down with the 

 Ears leaning.or at the end touching the ground i then 

 ret e from the place,and traverfe the grounds all round 

 about ; the Birdshereupon beingdifiurbed in their other 

 ; haunts fly hither,and pecking at the ears of Co.n,hnding 

 that they fiick unto them, they ftiaightwajs mount up 



