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shall sit and call the birds unto you, and as many 

 ot them light on your bush, step not out unto 

 them tillyou see them sufficiently entangled; neither 

 is it requisite to run for every single bird, but let 

 them alone till more come, for the fluttering is as 

 good as a stale to entice them more. 



You may take these small birds only with lime 

 twigs without the bush. 



Some boys have taken two or three hundred small 

 twigs about the bigness of rushes, and about three 

 inches long, and have gone with them into a field 

 where there were hemp cocks; upon the top of 

 half a score lying all round together, they have 

 stuck their twigs, and then have gone and beat 

 that field or the next to it, where they saw any 

 birds, and commonly in such fields there are infi- 

 nite numbers of linnets and green birds, which 

 are great lovers of hemp seed. 



And they flying in such vast flocks, they have 

 caught at one fall for them upon the cocks eight 

 dozen at a time. 



But to return, there is a pretty way of taking 

 birds with lime-twigs, by placing them near a 

 stale or two made of living bats, placing them 

 aloft that they may be visible to the birds there- 

 abouts^ who will no sooner be perceived, but 

 every bird will come and gaze, wondering at the 

 strangeness of the sight, and having no other 

 convenient lighting place but where the lime twigs 

 are you may take what number you list of them. 

 But the owl is a far better stale than the bat, 

 being bigger and more easily to be perceived, be- 

 sides he is never seen abroad but he is followed 

 and persecuted by all the birds that are near. 



If you have not a living bat or owl, their skins 



