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find your deceit, and will no longer endure it, 

 as it frequently falls out, then you may stalk 

 with an ox or cow till the stalking-horse be 

 forgotten, and by this means make your sport 

 continual. 



There are other dead engines to stalk 

 withal ; as an artificial tree, shrub, or bush, 

 which may be made of small wands, and with 

 painted canvass, into the shape of a willow, 

 poplar, or such trees as grow by river or 

 watersides, for these are best. If you stalk 

 with a shrub or bush, let them not be so tall 

 as your tree, but much thicker ; which you 

 may make either of one entire hush, or of 

 divers bushes interwoven one with another, 

 either with small withy-wands, cord or pack- 

 thread, that may not be discerned ; and let 

 not your bush exceed the height of a man, 

 but thicker than three or four men, with a 

 spike at the bottom to stick into the ground 

 whilst you take your level. 



Another good way to shoot ducks in win- 



