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mer and autumn; at this time bring your 

 dog to their coverts and hunt them out into 

 the stream, and there, with your gun and nets, 

 surprise them, driving them into them, for 

 at this time sheep will not drive more easy. 

 Though some may object that this sickly time 

 is 'unseasonable, yet if they consider what 

 excellent food these fowls will prove, the tak- 

 ing of them may be excusable. I have eat 

 of them after they have been fed awhile with 

 livers of beasts, barley paste, scalded bran, 

 and such like food, they have proved exceed- 

 ing fat, and have tasted not so fishy as they 

 do by their natural feeding, but exceeding 

 sweet, and deserve preference to any fowl 

 whatever. 



As the language of sportsmen possesses a 

 great number of specific names peculiar to 

 themselves, when speaking of the various ob- 

 jects of their pursuit, it may not be improper 

 to notice them in this place, and give such 

 terms as are proper. 



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