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onion, or juice of onion and it makes them drunk. 

 Wild Geese, to take. 



Take a tame duck or goose, with a string by 

 the leg, where wild geese or ducks come, and 

 strew in that place such seed or grain soaked in 

 lees of wine; where also white hellebore is boiled, 

 you may take forty at a time; it will quickly make 

 them drunk: let not the tied goose or duck come 

 to the seed. 



To catch Birds. 



Take any corn and steep- it in wine lees and 

 juice of hemlock, and cast it to the birds, and it 

 makes them drunk presently. 



How to teach Birds to speak, or whistle tunes. 



Keep them in dark places, and play any tune to 

 them for half a year, or till the time that young 

 birds taken out of the nest begin to sing, and they 

 will learn, if cocks, any tune you please, and ex- 

 ceed a flageolet, especially a linnet, bullfinch, rob- 

 in, or goldfinch, &c. And to teach jays, magpirs, 

 starlings, parrots, &c. Keep them dark, and hun- 

 gry, and talk often the satne thing to them; by can- 

 dle-light, or in the night-time. 

 To scare Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws, Pigeons, &c. 



Crows dead and hung up, much affrights them; 

 but among cherry trees, and other fruit trees, draw 

 a line from tree to tree, and here and there fasten 

 a bLck feather, and this will do 



Bat Fowling, the manner of it. 



Observe where birds roost in great numbers, as 

 they generally do in hedges, or trees, then go in a 

 dark night, one with a pole, and beat the contrary 

 side, and two or three be with you, carrying long 

 boughs: and you may easily strike them down; if 

 among shrubs as in a wood, let one on each side 



