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net up to him accordingly. The gamekeepers of the 

 Earl of Carlisle, being on their nightly perambulations, 

 were not a little astonished and alarmed, at seeing a 

 light traversing a field in a very singular manner ; they 

 prepared their guns accordingly, and in a short time 

 the light made a sudden stop, when three or four men, 

 whom they had not descried, making their appearance, 

 they were secured in the act of drawing a large net up 

 to the light, upon the head of the setter, as before men- 

 tioned. 



The nets for taking of partridges must be every way 

 like pheasant nets, both for length and breadth, except 

 that the meshes must be smaller, being made of the 

 same thread, and dyed of the same colour. 



TAKING PARTRIDGES WITH BIRDLIME. 



GET the best and largest wheat-straws you can and 

 cut them off between knot and knot, and lime them 

 with the strongest lime. Then go to the haunts of par- 

 tridges, and call ; if you are answered, prick your limed 

 straws at some distance from you, in many cross-rows 

 and ranks : cross the lands and furrows, taking in two 

 or three lands at least ; then lie close and call again, 

 not ceasing till you have drawn them towards you, so 

 that they be intercepted by the way by your limed 

 straws. These they no sooner touch than they will be 

 ensnared ; and as they run together like a brood of 



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