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beat at a pretty distance. Some use nets, made 

 like a racket at the end of poles, with which they 

 are easily knocked down. 



To take Sea-pyes, Crows and other Birds. 



Get a minnow, tie a thread to its tail, and two 

 small sticks of osier across at the end of the thread, 

 then lime your twigs with bird lime, and lay them 

 by the river on some rush, water leaf grass, or the 

 like: then when she sees it, she catches it up, and 

 the lime twigs take her wings, and she drops pre- 

 sently. 



Partridge, to take. 



Get sweet wine, and with wheat flour, make a ~ 

 paste, lay it in pellets where they come, and they 

 will be soon foxed, so you may take them with 

 your hand. But if you put a little coculus indicus 

 to it powdered, it is the better. 

 To take Wild Ducks, Geese, Herons, Sea Chills,, &c 



Drive a stake into the ground two or three foot 

 long, just by the water-side, then take a strong 

 horse-hair with a large hook fastened to it, and 

 bait it with fish, or frog, or guts, &c. and let your 

 line or lines lie in the river and they will swallow 

 it, and so hang that you may take them. Some 

 lay in the same manner snares made of horse-hair, 

 and often catch them by the feet as they swim 

 about. 



Birds that are Lousy. 



Anoint them with linseed-oil cures them. 

 Of ordering and improving Stocks of Bees. 



The bee though a small creature, and by many 

 numbered amongst insects, is extremely advan- 

 tageous to his nourisher, in returning abundance 

 for the little he receives, and not so only, but af- 

 fords demonstrative rules to men, both of policy 



