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have a Peg to put in with two Wyres, an Inch and 

 hialf long, to flick your Meal-wornn upon ; then tye a \ 

 String in the middle of the top of your Net, drawitig ' 

 the Net up, having an eye at the end of the handle to 

 put your Thread through, pull it till it flands upright, 

 then pull it through the hole of the Stick that fl:ands 

 in the middle of your Board, and put your Peg in the 

 hole, and that will hold the String that the Net cannot 

 fall down : you rauft put two Worms upon the V/yres, 

 before you put it into the hole, and fet it as gently as 

 ycu can, that it may fall with the firft touch of the 

 Nightingale : When you have your Net and Worm 

 leady, having firit fcraped the place, then put fome 

 Ants in your Trap-cage, and upon your Board put foftie 

 Worms upon Thorns, and fet them at the bottom of 

 your Trap-cage, little holes being made for the fame 

 purpofe to flick in the ends of your Thorns : Then 

 plant your Trap near to the place where you heard 

 them call, either in the Ditch, or by the Bank-fide, or 

 corner of a Hedge, and then walk away i you may fet 

 what number of Trap-cages you think convenient. D6 

 what is here propofcd, and you need not doubt the ha- 

 ving of your delires fatisfied. 



Having taken your Nightingales^ (the times is in Ju' 

 ly or Augujl) tye the ends of their Wings with fome 

 brown Thread, that fo they may be difenabled to hurt 

 themfelves by beating their tender bodies againft thd 

 top and Wyres of the Cage. 



Let the Cage be covered above half with green Bays, 

 and for four or five days let him be very little diflur- 

 bed by company i but withal forget not to feed them 

 half a dozen times every day with Sheeps-heart and 

 Egg flired very fine, and mingle red Ants therewith, 

 and a few red Earth-worms would not do amifs. 



Here note, that no Nightingale at firfl taking will 

 cat any other food than what is living , as Wormsi 



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