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ges neer Corn-fields,Fruit-trees, Flax and Hemp-lands i 

 and in the winter about Houfes, Hovels, Barns, Stacks, 

 or thofe places where ftand ricks of Corn, or fcattered 

 GhalT, &c. 



As near as you can to any of thefe haunts plant 

 your Lime-bufh, and plant your felf alfo at a conveni- 

 ent dirtance undifcovered , imitating with your mouth 

 the feveral Notes of Birds, which you muft learn by fre- 

 quent pradice, walking the Fields for that very purpofe 

 often, obfcrving the variety of feveral birds founds, ef- 

 pecially fuch as they call one another by. I have known 

 fbme fo expert herein, that they could imitate the 

 Notes of twenty feveral forts of Birds at leaft,by which 

 they have caught ten Birds to anothers one that was 

 ignorant therein. 



But if you cannot attain to it by your induftry, you 

 murt then buy a Bird-call^ of which there are feveral 

 forts, and ealie to be framed, fome of Wood, fome of 

 Horn, fome of Cane, and the like. 



Having firfl: learned how to ufe this Call, you (hall 

 fit and call the Birds unto you 5 and as any of them 

 light on your Bufh , ftep not to them till you fee 

 them fufficiently entangled : Neither is it requilite to 

 run for every iingle Bird, but let them alone till more 

 come, for their fluttering is as good as a Stale to entice 

 more. 



This Exercife you may ufe from Sun-R.illng till 

 ten a clock in the Morning, and from one till almoft 

 Sun-fet. 



You may take thefe fmall Birds with Lime-twigs 

 onely, without the Bulli. When I was a boy, 1 have 

 taken two or three hundred fmall Twigs about the 

 bignefs of Rufhcs, and about three Inches long , and 

 have gone with them into a field v/here were Hemp- 

 cocks s upon the tops of half a fcore , lying all round 

 together, J haveltuck my Twigs, and then have gone 



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