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due times and seasons. Being perfect there- 

 in, either mornings or evenings, (all other 

 times being improper) go to their haunts, 

 and having conveyed yourself into some 

 secret place, where you may see and not be 

 seen, listen awhile if you can hear the par- 

 tridges call ; if you do, answer them again 

 in the same note, and as they change or 

 double their notes, so must you in like man- 

 ner, thus continue doing till they draw nearer 

 and nearer to you. Having them in view, 

 lay yourself on your back, and lie as if you 

 were without motion, by which you may 

 count their numbers: in this method the 

 sportsman will always find most game, and 

 save himself and dogs much trouble in the 

 search of it. 



SETTING. 



How to take partridges, pheasants, moor- 

 game, quails, $c. with a setting- 

 dog and net. 



There is no art of taking partridges, &c. 

 so excellent and pleasant as by the help of a 



