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So that there is no time of the year but their Bree- 

 (3ing-time,which may not beexercifed in this plcafure i 

 whence what profit may arife, I (hall leave to the judg- 

 ment of thofe who keep good houfes, and fuch as have 

 good Stomacks. 



Hoivtotake PA RTR I DCjES /fz/er^/ 



ways, either hy Net, Engine, Driving, 

 or Setting. 



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Artridgef are naturally cowardly, fearful, fimple, 

 _ and fooU(h, and therefore moft eafily to be decei- 

 ved or beguiled with any Train, Bait, Engine, or o- 

 ther Device whatever, whether by Enticement, Call, 

 or Stale. 



It will he neceffary in the firft place to confider their 

 Haunts, which are not C like the fheafants) certain, 

 but various \ any covert will ferve their turn, and 

 fometimes none at all. 



The places they moft delight in arc the Corn-fields, 

 efpecially whilft the Corn grows » for under that co- 

 vert they ftielter, ingender, and breed. Neither are 

 thefe places unfrequented by them when the Corn is 

 cut down, by reafon of the Grain they find therein, 

 efpecially in Wheat-llubble ■■> and the height thereof 

 they delight in, being to them as a covert or a (bel- 

 ter. Now when the Wheat-ftubble is much troddea 

 by Men or Beafts, then they betake themfelves to 

 the Barley - ftubble , provided it be fre(h and un- 

 trodden i and they will in the Furrows amongft 

 the Clots , Brambles , and long Grafs , hide both 

 themfelves and Covies, which are fometimes twenty in 



number, 



