TO TAKE BIRDS WITH BIRDLIME. 



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TO TAKE BIRDS WITH BIRDLIME. 



PITCH, early in the morning, upon a place in a piece 

 of ground remote from tall trees ; and hedge, or stick 

 in the ground, three or four branches of coppice-wood, 

 represented in the cut as A, B, T, five or six feet high ; 

 and so intermingle the tops of them, that they may keep 



close and firm like a hedge. Take two or three houghs 

 of blackthorn, as C, D, let them be thick and close, and 

 place them on the top of the coppice branches, where 

 you must make them stick fast ; provide yourself with 

 four or five dozen of small lime-twigs, nine or ten inches 

 long, and as slender as can be got ; smear them over 

 with birdlime, within two inches of the thick end, which 

 must be cleft with a knife ; place them there and upon 

 the hedge, and let them be kept up by placing the 

 cleft end slightly on the point of the thorns. The 



