CHAP. XXXVI.] VARIETY OF GAME. 281 
throat of a barn-door cock ; but a landrail appears to be a bird 
quite unfitted to produce a sound like that of a piece of iron 
drawn along the teeth of a rusty saw. There is a way of imi- 
tating their cry so exactly, as to bring the bird to your feet, but 
I never could succeed in doing so, or indeed in making it answer 
me at all, though I have tried the plan which I was told was 
infallible, of drawing the edges of two horse's ribs against each 
other, one of them being smooth and the other notched like a 
saw. Although the fields were swarming with the birds at the 
time, I never succeeded in persuading even a single one to 
answer me. 
THE END. 
Landon: Printed by Wrertam Crowes and Sows, Stamford Strect. 
