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The body from whence these branches have 

 their rise must be untouched with lime. 



Be sure you do not daub your twigs with too 

 much lime, for that will give distaste to the birds, 

 yet let none want its proportion, or have any 

 part left bare which ought to be touched; for as 

 too much will deter them from coming, so too 

 little will not hold them when they are there. 

 Having so done, place your bush in some quick- 

 set or dead hedge near unto towns ends, back- 

 yards, old houses, or the like; for these are the 

 resort of small birds in the spring time: in the 

 summer and harvest in groves, bushes, or white 

 thorn trees, quickset hedges near cornfields, 

 fruit trees, flax, and hemp lands: and in the win- 

 ter about houses, hovels, barns, stacks, or other 

 places where stand ricks of corn, or scattered 

 chaff, &c. 



As near as you can to any of these haunts, 

 plant your lime bush, and plant yourself also at 

 a convenient distance undiscovered, imitating 

 with your mouth several notes of birds, which you 

 must learn by frequent practice, walking the 

 fields for that purpose very often, observing the va- 

 riety of several birds sounds, especially such as 

 they call one another by. 



Some have been so expert herein, that they 

 could imitate the notes of twenty several sorts of 

 birds at least, by which they have caught ten 

 birds to another's one that was ignorant therein. 



If you cannot attain it by your industry, you 

 must buy then a bird call, of which there are 

 several sorts, and easy to be framed; some of 

 Wood, some of horn, some of cane, and the like. 



Having learnt first how to use this call, you 

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