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ftalkof it muft be a nick cut in. Then having thruft down the (harpned end of the 

 Hazel-plant faft into the ground on the bank or fide of the track, bring the fmal- 

 ler end with the Loop and Tricker to the Bridge : Then put one end of the Tricker 

 under the bout of the firft mentioned (tick, and the other end in the nick made in 

 the (talk or end of the Bridge $ this will keep the Hazel-plant bent down. Then lay- 

 trie Loop of horfe-hair upon the Bridge fo conveniently wide, as that the Bird may 

 tread in the middle of it upon the Bridge, which (lie (hall no (boner do, butup.will 

 fly the end of the Hazel-plant, andthebirdsfootbe caught in the noofe or flipping 

 Loop of horfe-hair. This is fomewhat difficult fo clearly to exprefs in words as that 

 any man may readily underftand and conceive it. Marram's defcription is fo imper- 

 fect and obfcure, that I could make nothing of it. 



How to catch Woodcocks in Snares. 



This Bird being wont to walk (freight forwards in any furrows or tracks, the Fow- 

 lers make little pads or walks for them in the places where they haunt, of a Palm 

 broad, ftreight and equal, and in them fet many Snares made of horfe-hair (uchasare 

 defigned Figure 2. This bird being (ufficiently (imple, once got into one of thefe pads 

 runs ftreight on from end to end without any heed-taking,and(bis caught by the neck 

 infomeofthefe fliares. 



We in England are wont to make great Glades through thick Woods, and hang 

 Nets acrofs them : And fo the Woodcocks (hooting through thefe Glades, as their na- 

 ture is, ftrike againft the Nets, and are entangled in them. 



Chap. IV. 

 An approved way to take a Heron ] out of the Epitome of the Art of Husbandry, 



A Heron being as great a devourer of Fifh as any is, I will affirm ten times as 

 much as the Otter, and (hall deftroy a Pond more in one Week than an Otter 

 (hall do in three Months : For I have feen a Heron that hath been (hot at a 

 Pond to have feventeen Carps at once in his belly, which he will digeft in fix or feven 

 hours, and to fifhing again. I have (een a Carp taken out of a Herons belly nine 

 Inches and an half long : Several Gentlemen that have kept them tame, have put fifh 

 in aTub,and tried the Heron how many (mall Roches and Dace he would eat in a day, 

 and they have found him to eat above fifty a day 4 orie day with another. One Heron 

 that haunts a Pond in a year (hall deftroy one thoufand (tore-carps 3 nay, one thou- 

 fand five hundred in half a year. Now the beft way to take this great enemy of Fifh 

 is this : Having found his haunt, get three or four fmall Roches or Daces and having 

 aftrongHook with a Wire to it, draw the Wirejuft withinfide the skin of the fi(h 5 

 beginning without fide of the Gills, and running it to the tail, and then the fi(h will 

 lie five or fix days alive : For if the fi(h be dead, the Heron will not touch him. Let 

 not your Hook be too rank. Then having a ftrong Line made of Silk and Wire,about 

 two yards and half long ( if you twift not Wire with your Silk his (harp Bill will 

 bite it in two immediately ) and tie a round ftone of about a pound weight to the 

 Line, and lay three or four Hooks, and in two or three nights you (hall not fail to 

 have him if he comes to your Ponds. Lay not your Hooks in the deep water, where 

 the Heron cannot wade to them 5 for if you do, they may lie long enough before you 

 fee any effect of your pains. Colour your Line of a dark green, for a Heron is a very 

 fubtle bird. 



Chap. 



