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use your call, yet you may call them toge- 

 ther at any other time of the day, only al- 

 tering your note ; just at or before sun-rising 

 your note must be to call them to feed, and 

 so at sun-set ; but in the fore and afternoon 

 your note must be to cluck them together, or 

 brood, or to chide them for straggling, or to 

 give them notice of some approaching dan- 

 ger. Knowing your notes, and how to ap- 

 ply them where the pheasants haunt, which 

 you will know by the strength of the under- 

 growth, obscureness, darkness, and solitari- 

 ness of the place ; you must then lodge your- 

 self as close as possible, and call at first 

 very softly, lebt the pheasants being lodged 

 very near should be affrighted at a loud 

 note ; but if nothing replies, rise your note 

 higher and higher, till you extend it to the 

 uttermost compass, and any pheasant with- 

 in hearing will answer it in a note as loud as , 

 your ow r n, provided it be not untuneable, 

 forthat will spoil all. As soon as you hear 

 this answer, if it be from afar and from one 

 single bird, creep nearer and nearer unto it,. 



