98 METHOD FOR TAKING SMALL BIRDS. 



from which you may see the hirds, about twenty or 

 thirty paces from a window or door, where they cannot 

 see you, that they may not he frightened; clear this 

 place of the snow, to the breadth of six or seven feet, 

 and of the same length, so as to form a square, as repre- 

 sented in the preceding plate. 



Within the lines 0, P, Q, R, place a wooden table, 

 or door, in the middle, as at A, to which you must have 

 fastened before, at the sides B, C, D, E, some small 

 pieces of pipe-staves, about six inches long and one 

 broad; but previous to nailing them on, make a hole 

 exceeding the thickness of the nail, that it may turn 

 loosely upon it. 



You are to place under the four ends which are not 

 nailed, four pieces of tile or slate, to hinder them from 

 penetrating into the ground, as you may see at F and 

 G, in such a manner that the table may not be fixed, but 

 with the least movement fall down. 



Make a small notch, or little stay, in the end of the 

 table, at the place H, in order to put into it the end of 

 the staff marked I, which should be seven inches long 

 and one broad ; the other end should rest upon a piece 

 of tile or slate, so that the door, or table, thereon, would 

 be ready to fall towards the house, were it not sustained 

 by the piece of wood, which is bored towards the 

 middle, in order to put in and fasten the end of a small 

 cord, the other end of which is conveyed to the window 

 or door, M, N, designed for this purpose. 



This done, put some straw upon the table to cover it, 





