Hoiv to take Rooks when they pull up the , 

 Corn ly the Roots. 



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'Ake fome thick Brown-paper, and divide a (heet 

 into eight parts, and make them up like Sugar- 

 loaves 5 then lime the infide of the Paper a very lit- 

 tle s C let them be limed three or four days before 

 you fee them ) then put fome Corn in them, and lay 

 threcfcore or more of them up and down the ground i 

 lay them as near as you can under fome clod of Earth, 

 and early in the Morning before they come to feed ^ 

 and then ftand at a dirtance, and you will fee molt ex-- 

 cellent fpbrt ■-, for as foon as Rookr^ Crows., or Pigeons 

 come to peck out any of the Corn, it will hang up- 

 on his head, and he will immediately fly bolt upright 

 fo high, that he (hall foar almolt out of fight j and 

 when he is fpent, come tumbling down as if he liad 

 been (hot in the Air. You may take them at Plough- 

 ing-time when the Kookj and Crorvs follow the Plough ; 

 but then you mult put in Worms and Maggots of the 

 large(t fize. 



How to take Birds with BAITS, either 

 Land or Water-fowl. 



IF you have a defire to take Hmfe-doves^ Stocky Joves^ 

 KooJ^/, Coughs^ or any other-like Birds, then take 

 Wheat, Barley, Fetches, Tares, or other Grain, and 

 boil them very well with good (lore of Nux vomica m 

 ordinary running water : when they are almolt boil'd, 

 dry and ready to burif, take them off the fire, and fet 

 them by till they be throughly cold. Having fodone, 

 fcatter this Grain in the Haunts of thofe birds you 



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