[ 30 1 

 Hemp-Seed -, put in the Bottom of the Cage 

 red Saad, and ftrew them a little Meat in 

 the Bottom of the C^ge for three or four 

 D.^vs, fo they prefently become tame 



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d familiar. 



'To take the Sky-Lark in Flight. 



YO U take them as you do other fmall 

 Birds, witha Clap-Net ; in the Coun- 

 try, about DtinflaUe, and feveral other 

 Places, they take them with a Glafs, called 

 a Larking-Glafs. Thefe Glafies are made 

 of the Bignefs and Shape of a Cucumber, 

 hollo Vv^ within, and three, four, or five Holes 

 cut round, and Pieces of Looking-Glafles 

 placed in •, it is fixed by a Staff, and run:> 

 out like a Whirligigs having a Line which 

 comes where we ftand, at a pull Pin, we 

 work it backwards and forv^^ards. This muft 

 be of a Sun-fhinv Day, then the Larks will 

 play the better, the Glafs glittering, and 

 ihz Larks playing about, and feeing them- 

 felves in it, makes them come down to it ;. 

 as foon as they come within Pull, pull the 

 Nets over them. By this I have known, 

 in the Country, ten or fifteen Dozen taken 

 in a Morning. 



This Lark is taken in dark Nights with 

 a Net, called a Trammel ; it is a Net of 

 twenty fix or thirty Yards long, and fix 



over, 



