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it is wont to be faid : For Thmjhes a wife man, and for Beccafigos, a fool or mad 

 man. 



To hinder the Birds from mounting and flying away, fome are wont to turn off a 

 Sparhawk, or other little Hawk with Bells at her heels to (bar aloft and hover over 

 the Grove. Others are wont to do the fame only with a pair of wings, and a Bell on 

 the top of a Pole. When you fee no more birds ftirring, loofening the top-cords let 

 down and furl up your Nets, with the birds in them 5 and either carry them home 

 in the Net,or take them out at pleafure. 



$. V. 



Of the Sf arrow-net. 



THe Sparrow-net is made up of two crofs-ftaves, a Purfe-net, and two firings. 

 The form of this Net you may fee exprefTed 5? J W f 

 in which AFB reprefents the longer crofs-ftaff, whofe direct piece muff be of the 

 bignefs of a handfom Hawks Pole 5 its tranfverfe piece AB like the head of an ordi- 

 nary hay-rake, but bigger and longer: CEDthe ihorter crofs-ftaff, joyned to the 

 longer atE,fbloofely as to fall to and fro at pleafure, of fuch due height and length, 

 that when the crofs pieces meet they may joyn even and juft. C A E B D is a Purfe- 

 riet, faftned to both crofs-ftaves all along, and having that liberty at top, that the 

 crofs-ftaves may fall and part one from another at a pretty diftance 3 its bottom being 

 faftned to the longer ftaffat E. C A E, D B E are two fmall cords faftned to the two 

 ends of the fhorter crofs-ftaff, and paffing through two holes in the ends of the lon- 

 ger crofs-ftaff, tied together at E, at fuch diftance that the fhorter ftaff may fall from 

 the longer as far as you fee meet, or the widenefs of the Net will give leave. To 

 ^the knot of the two Cords muft be made faft a fingle Cord E G, which you muft carry 

 in your right hand,that you may at pleafure draw the crofs-ftaves clofe together, and 

 let them open as need (hall require. 



This Net is tobeufed late in the Evening, or early in the Morning, by fettingit 

 againft the Eves of thatcht Houfes, Stacks, Hovels, Barns, Stables, Dove-coats, &c. 

 and being fofet knocking andthrufting the crofs-ftaves clofe againft the fame, making 

 fuch a noife as may inforcethe Birds to fly out of their holes or haunts into the Net 5 

 and then prefently drawing the Line E G 5 andfofhutting up the crofs-ftaves enclofe 

 them, and letting down your Net, open it, and take them out. 



The chief benefit of taking Birds in this manner is for the mewing of Hawks, or 

 getting into luft and ftrength lick and weak Hawks : Becaufe with this Engine you 

 may take Evening and Morning fo many birds as you pleafc, and give them warm to 

 your Hawk, which is the greateft nourifhment that can be, raifing a Hawk foon, and 

 making her mew faft. 



Chap. III. 

 How to take federal forts of fmall Birds and other Landf owl with Bird-lime. 



j. I. 



Of taking fmall Birds with the Lime-bufcand Lime-twigs. 



Y Our Lime-bufh muft be a main bough of any bufhy tree, as Birch or Willow, 

 or for want of them, Sallow, Poplar, or Afpen 3 whofe twigs are long, 

 fmooth, and (freight, without pricks, knots, or any other roughnefs or 

 crookednefs ; having picktand trim'd it ( yet not taking away any of the little bud- 

 knots ) lime every twig and branch from the top down within four fingers or there- 

 about of the bottom. The body and main branches muft not be' touched with any 

 Lime at all. Dabble not on your Lime too thick, nor yet let any part be left bare, or 

 want its proportion, that ought to be limed. 



Your Bufh thus prepared, carry it forth into the fields where the haunts of the 

 fmall birds are, and place it as near as you can to any of thefe haunts, if it be a hedge 



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