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fore Sun-rifing. Where note, the milder the Air, the 

 brighter the Sun , and the pleafanter the Morning is, 

 the better will your fport be , and of longer continu- 

 ance. 



Let the place you ele6l: for this purpofe be plain and 

 Champain, either on Barley -ftubbles, green Lays, or 

 level and flat Meadows > and thefe places muft be re- 

 mote from any Villages , but near adjacent to Corn- 

 fields. 



The fafhion of a Day-net is this : you muft make 

 them of fine Packthread , the Mefli fmall, and not a- 

 bove half an Inch fquare each way i let the length be 

 about three fathom , the breadth one fathom and no 

 more : the (hape is like the Crow-net, and it muft be 

 verg'd about in the fame manner with a ftrong fmall 

 Cord, add the two ends extended upon two fmall long 

 poles fuitable to the breadth of the Net , with four 

 flakes, Tail-ftrings, and Drawing-lines , as afore-men- 

 tioned : only whereas that was but one fingle Net,here 

 muft be two of one length, breadth and fafhion, Thefe 

 Nets muft be laid oppofite to each other, yet fo clofe 

 and even together, that when they are drawn and pul- 

 led over, the fides and edges may meet and touch one 

 the other. 



Thefe Nets being ftaked down with ftrong Stakes 

 very ftiffly on their Lines, fo as with any nimble twitch 

 you may caft them to and fro at your pleafure i you ftiall 

 then to the upper ends of the foremoft ftaves faften your 

 Hand -lines or drawing Cords , which muft be at the 

 leaft a dozen , a fathom long j and fo extend them of 

 fuch a reafonable ftreightnefs , as with little ftrength 

 th6y may raife up the Nets and caft them over. 



When your Nets are laid, fome twenty or thirty pa- 

 ces, beyond them place your Stales, Decoys, or playing 

 Wantons , upon fome pearching Boughs , which will 

 not only entice Birds of their own Feather to ftoop, 



but 



