102 TO TAKE BIRDS WITH BIRDLIME. 



middle should be borne up a little with some higher 

 thorn, so that the twigs may stand sloping, but without 

 touching one another ; ranging all in such a manner, 

 that a bird cannot light upon the hedge without being 

 entangled. 



You should always have a bird of the sort you 

 design to catch, and bring it up in a small cage that is 

 light and portable. These cages must be placed upon 

 small forked sticks, as F, G, ten inches from the ground, 

 stuck on one side of the artificial hedge or bush, at two 

 yards' distance : after which retire thirty paces towards 

 S, where you are to stick two or three leaved branches 

 in the ground, which may serve for a lodge or stand ta 

 hide yourself. 



When you have taken three or four birds of any 

 sort, you must make use of a device represented by 

 the second figure. Take a small stick, I, H, two feet 

 long, and fix it upright in the ground, at the distance 

 of about four yards from the tree ; fasten a small pack- 

 thread to the end I, which must be on a small forked 

 stick, L, M, two feet high, and fix it in the ground 

 eight yards distant from the other I, H ; let the end of 

 it be conveyed to your stand, then tie the birds you 

 have taken by the legs to that packthread between the 

 stick I, H, and the forked one L, M : the letters N, 

 0, P, Q, R, represent them to you : the thread made 

 use of for this purpose must be two feet long, and so 

 slack that the birds may stand upon the ground. This 

 done, retire to your stand; and when you see some 



