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teach us ' How to finde the Eye of Pheasants : ' ' Now 

 when you have thus found out the haunts and breed- 

 ing places of the Pheasant, then your next care is to 

 finde out the Eye or brood of Pheasants, which you 

 may doe sundry waies : as first by your eye, in search- 

 ing up and down those haunts, and viewing the bushes 

 and trees and other obscure places, where for the 

 most part they reside, and where you shall see them 

 flock and runne together in companies and heaps, as 

 it were so many Chickins after the Henne ; or else by 

 rising early in the Morning, or comming late in the 

 Evening, and observing how and when the old Cock 

 and Henne calleth to the young ones, and then how 

 the young ones answer back unto them again, and so 

 from that found to direct your path as near as you 

 can to the place where they meet and gather together, 

 lying there down so close and secretly, that by no 

 means you may be discerned, but that you may take 

 a true observation how they meet, and how they 

 lodge together, that from thence you may take a true 

 knowledge, both how, where, which way and after 

 what manner to pitch your Netts, and with what ad- 

 vantage both of wind and weather, for the gaining of 

 your purpose.' He suggests, however, that 'if it so 

 fall out, that either by your own want of knowledge 

 in this kind of practise, or through any other naturall 



