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trap before it, the water being a little too deep for them 

 to go to it, they will set their feet upon the bridge to 

 reach it. 



To poison them, lay the ribs of a horse in the arm 

 of a naked tree, about the middle of a cover; chop 

 some flesh, entrails, &c., and mix plenty of nux voinica 

 with it. 



To have sport with magpies, where you see them 

 feed, make little twists of white paper, open at the top, 

 wide enough to admit the head. Lime the inside edges, 

 pass them into the ground with a dibble, then drop a 

 small piece of flesh into each ; when they pop their 

 heads in they will become hoodwinked, and fly almost 

 out of sight, then drop down, and so on. Pigeons may 

 be taken in the same way, with brown paper, and two 

 or three peas dropped into each. This is to be done 

 where they feed. 



To take herons, (being great enemies in fisheries,) 

 take a small roach, or very small eel ; put it upon an 

 eel-hook with a line ; lay it in the water, where it is 

 about six inches deep : fasten the line to the side. A 

 few of these, laid where they frequent, will not fail of 

 success. 



Calls for vermin, quails, rails, &c., may be had of the 

 bird-fanciers in London. Crying like a hare will bring 

 ravens, crows, magpies, jays, hawks, &c. ; and crying 

 like a rabbit, will bring polecats, stoats, &c., from the 

 rabbits' holds, which is easy to do with the mouth. 



