FOR TAKING SMALL BIRDS WITH LIME-TWIGS. 107 



which they have caught ten birds to another person's 

 one that was ignorant. 



If you cannot attain it by your industry, you must 

 procure a bird-call, of which there are several sorts, easy 

 to be made ; some of wood, some of horn, some of cane, 

 and the like. 



Having learnt first how to use this call, you must sit 

 and call the birds to you, and as any of them light on 

 your bush, do not attempt to take them till you see 

 them sufficiently entangled; neither is it requisite to 

 run for every single bird, but let them alone till more 

 come, for the fluttering is as good as a lure to entice 

 others. 



This plan you may use from sunrise till ten o'clock 

 in the morning, and from one till almost sunset. 



You may take these small birds with limed twigs 

 only, without the bush, in this manner : 



Take two or three hundred small twigs, about the 

 thickness of rushes, and about three inches long, and 

 go with them into a field where hemp cocks are : upon 

 the tops of about ten of the cocks, which are nearest 

 together, stick the twigs, and then go and beat about 

 that field or the next, where you have seen any birds ; 

 and commonly in such fields there are infinite numbers 

 of linnets and green-birds, which are great lovers of 

 hemp-seed : these birds flying in such vast flocks, a 

 number may be caught at one fall of them upon the 

 cocks. 



There is another way of taking birds with limed 



