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Having found out the Covie> draw forth your Nets, 

 and taking a large circumference, walk a good round 

 pace with a carelefs eye, rather from than towards the 

 Fartridges^ till you have trimmed your Nets, and made 

 them ready for the purpofe : which done, you muft 

 draw in your circumference lefs and lefs, till you come 

 within the length of your Net : then pricking down a 

 a Stick about three foot in length, faften one end of the 

 Line of your Net, and make it faft in the Earth asyoa 

 walkabout i C ^^^ you mult make no ftop nor ftay i ) 

 then, letting the Net flip out of your hands, fpread it 

 open as you go, and io carry and lay it all over the 

 fartridges. 



But if they (hould lie ftraggling, fo that you cannot 

 cover them all with one Net, then you muft draw forth 

 another, and do with that as you did with the former j 

 doing fo with a third, if occafion require : having fo 

 done, rufh in upon them, who affrighted, will flie up, 

 and fo be entangled in the Nets. 



Hoiv to take Partridges mth Bird-lime. 



Takeof thefaireftand largeft Wheat-ftraws you can 

 get, and cut them off between Knot and Knot, and 

 lime them with the ftrongeft Lime. Then go to the 

 Haunts of P^r/r/W^fj, and call : if youare anfwered, 

 then prick at fome diliance from you your limed Straws 

 in many crofs rows and ranks crofs the Lands and 

 Furrows, taking in two or three Lands at leaft : then 

 lie clofe and call again, not cealing till you have drawn 

 them towards you, fo that they be intercepted by the 

 way by your limed Straws, which they (hall no fooner 

 touch, but they will be cnfnared i and by reafon they 

 all run together like a brood of Chickens, they will fo 

 befmeaf and daub one another, that very few of them 

 will efcape. 



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