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Eye or company ; yet neverthelesse, they are not the 

 only and alone times, but you may as well use the 

 call any time in the forenoon after the Sunne rise, or 

 any time in the afternoone before Sunne set, by alter- 

 ing and exchanging onely your note or tune, for as 

 before Sunne riseand at Sunne set your note is to call 

 them to their foode or to give them libertie to range ; 

 so your notes after, Sunne rise and before Sunne set, 

 which are called the forenoone and afternoone notes, 

 must be to clucke them together, and to bring them 

 to brood, as also to chide them for their straggling, 

 and to put them in feare of some danger ensuing. As for 

 the notes of rejoycing or playing they may bee used at 

 any time, yet not so much for the discovery of these 

 young Pheasants, as for the finding out of the old 

 couples, when they are separated and gone any 

 distance one from another, whether it be for foode, 

 through affright, or any other naturall or casuall occa- 

 sions whatsoever, as every hower hapneth to these 

 feareful and cowardly creatures.' 



Markham proceeds to read us a lecture on ' The 

 manner of using the Call : ' ' Having thus,' he says, 

 ' the perfect use of your Call, and the observation of 

 the right howers and seasons, being come to the 

 hauntes (that is to say into the aforesaide thicke 

 Copsies and Underwoods), and having ranged 



