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and lying even flat upon your Belly ,put the nofe of youic 

 Piece over the Bank, and fo take your level » for a 

 Fowl is fo fearful of man , that though an Hawk were 

 foaiing over her head, yet at the fight of a man (he 

 would betake her felf to her wing, and run the rifque 

 of that danger. 



But fometime it fo happeneth that the Fowl are fo 

 (hie, there is no getting a (hoot at them without a Stal- 

 king-horfe, which mu(t be fome old Jade trained up 

 for that purpoic, who will gently, and as you will have 

 him, walk up and down in the water which way you 

 pleafe fiodding and eating on the Grafs that grows 

 therein. 



You muft flicker your felf and Gun behind his fore- 

 fhoulder, bending your body down low by his fide,and 

 keeping his body (iill full between you and the Fowl ; 

 being within (hot, take your level from before the fore- 

 parr of the Horfe, (hooting as it were between the hor- 

 fcs Neck and the water '•, w^hich is much better than 

 fiiooting under his Belly, being more fecure, and lefs 

 pcFceivcable. 



Now to fupply the want of a Stalking-horfe,which 

 will take up a great deal of time to inlhudt and make 

 fit for this excrcife, you may make one of any pieces of 

 old Canvas, which you muii (liape into the form of an 

 Horfe, with the head bending downwards as if he gra- 

 zed. You may Uulf it with any light matter \ and do 

 not forget to paint it of the colour of an horfe, of 

 which the brown is the belt •, and in the midft let it be 

 iix'd to a Staff with a fliarp Iron at the end, to flick 

 into the ground as you (hall fee occalion, (landing faft 

 whiUi you take your level. 



Itmu(i be made fo portable, that you may bear it 

 with cafe in one hand, moving it fo as it may feem to 

 graze as you go. Let the flaturc of your artificial Sfal- 

 king-hoife be neither too low nor too high , for the 



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