106 FOR TAKING SMALL BIRDS WITH LIME-TWIGS. 



neat and clean, then take the best birdlime, well mixed 

 and wrought together with goose-grease, which being 

 warmed, lime every twig therewith within four fingers 

 of the bottom. 



The body from whence the branches have their rise 

 must be untouched with lime. 



Be sure you do not daub your twigs too much, for 

 that will give distaste to the birds : yet let none want 

 its proportion, or have any part left bare which ought 

 to be touched : for as too much will deter them from 

 coming, so too little will not hold them when they are 

 there. Having so done, place your bush in some quick- 

 set or dead hedge near towns' ends, back yards, old 

 houses, or the like ; for these are the resort of small 

 birds in the spring time. In the summer and harvest, 

 place your bush in groves, clumps of whitethorn trees, 

 quickset hedges near corn fields, fruit trees, flax and 

 hemp lands; and in the winter about houses, hovels, 

 barns, stacks, or those places where ricks of corn stand, 

 or chaff is scattered. 



As near as you can to any of these haunts plant your 

 limed bush, and place yourself at a convenient distance, 

 unexposed, imitating with your mouth several notes of 

 birds, which you must learn by frequent practice, walk- 

 ing the fields for that purpose very often, observing the 

 variety of several birds' sounds, especially such as they 

 call one another by. 



Some have been so expert herein, that they could 

 imitate the notes of twenty different birds at least, by 



