Now may you train him up for your Gun, making 

 him ftalk after you ikp by ftep , or elfe couch and lie 

 clofe till you have (hot. ri^t :-'^ 



Many more neceffary Rules there arc, which for bre- 

 vity fake I muft omit. 



The laft ufc of the Water-dog is in moulting-time, 

 when Wild^fowl caft their Feathers and are unable to 

 fly, which is between Summer and Autumn : at this 

 time bring your Dog to their Coverts, and hunt then) 

 out into the ftrcam, and there with your Nets furprize 

 them, driving them into them •, for at this time fheep 

 will not drive more eaGly. And though fome may 

 objed:, that this fickly time is unfeafonable » yet it they 

 confider what excellent food thefe Fowl will prove 

 when aamm'd, the taking of them may be very excu- 

 fable. I have eaten of them after they have been fed 

 I while with Livers of Beaft,Whey, Curds, Barley,Pafte, 

 fcalded Bran, and fach-like i they have proved excee- 

 ding fat, and have tafted not fo filliy as they do by their 

 natural feeding, but exceeding fweet, and delerve to be 

 prefcned before any Fowl whatever. 



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