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The 7nanner of way to take Sea-pies. 



The Sea-pie is a foule that vseth the seas, and breedes much in Hands in the 

 sea, and Hues most by fish and wormes, and where as they vse in fresh riuers, they 

 destroy much fish, young firie, and such as swimmes nigh the toppe of the water, 

 and will be in shallow places of the water : and there they haunt to take and feede 

 on them. Therefore the fisher men haue inuented a way howe to take them, which 

 is : ye shall lyme two small Oziars, and binde the ends that are next the bayte, 

 almost crosse wise. Then take an other short sticke, and binde the one end vnto 

 your ends of crosse twigges as ye may see afore, and put that short sticke through 

 the fish or bayte. Then lay it on some water leafe, rushes, or such like in the 

 midst of the riuer, and as soone as they shall see it, they will take and flie away 

 with it in their bylles, and soone they shall be lymed therewith. 



The other way of laying these limed twigges is, ye shall put a small short sticke 

 in the bayte, as ye'e may see a fore. And at the hinder ende tye a threed an intch 

 long, and to that thre'ed tie our lymed twigges, and when she takes and flies away 

 with it, she cannot flie far:e but she will be lymed, for the twigs will turne and 

 touch her vidngs, and then she will fall. Thus ye may take many Sea-pies, both in 

 sommer and Winter, and the like way ye may take both Crowes and other Pyes, 



