a foot distant one from the other; pin
down your Stale, some distance from them, tying some small string to
him, to pull and make him flutter to allure the Fowl down. If any be
caught, do not run presently upon them, their fluttering will encrease
your Game. A well taught _Spaniel_ is not amiss to retake those that are
entangled, and yet flutter away. Thus likewise for the Water; consult
the Rivers depth, and let your Rods be proportionable; what is Lim'd of
them being above the Water, and a _Mallard_, &c. as a Stale placed here
and there, as aforesaid. You need not wait on them, but three times a
day visit them, and see your Game; if you miss any Rods (therefore know
their Number) some Fowl entangled is got away with it, into some Hole,
_&c._ and here your _Spaniel_ will be serviceable to find him.

For _Small-birds_, a _Lime-bush_ is best; thus, Cut down a great Bough
of a _Birch_, or _Willow-tree_, trim it clean, and Lime it handsomely,
within four Fingers of the bottom: Place this Bush so ordered, in some
quick-set, or dead _Hedge_, in Spring time: In Harvest, or Summer, in
_Groves_, _Bushes_, _Hedges_, _Fruit-trees_, _Flax_, and _Hemp_-Lands:
In Winter, about _Houses_, _Hovells_, _Barns_, _Stacks_, &c. A _Bird-call_
is here also necessary, or your own industrious skill in the Notes of
several Birds.

And because Gentlemen who have Fish-ponds, wonder they lose so many
Fish, and are apt to Censure sometimes undeservedly their Neighbours,
when it is the insatiable _Hern_, that is the true cause: I shall next
lay down the best and most approved way of taking the great
Fish-devouring _Hern_, whose Haunt having found, observe this Method to
take him. Get three or four small _Roaches_, or _Dace_, take a strong
Hook, (not too rank) with Wyre to it, and draw the Wyre just within the
skin, from the side of the Gills, to the Tail of the said Fish, and he
will live four or five days, (If dead the _Hern_ will not touch it.)
Then have a strong Line, of a dark Green-silk, twisted with Wyre, about
three Yards long, tie a round stone of a pound to it, and lay three or
four such hooks, but not too deep in the Water, out of the _Herns_
wading; and two or three Nights will answer your Expectation.

_The several wayes of taking_ Pheasants.

You must learn and understand the several Notes of a Natural
_Pheasant-Call_, and how usefully to apply them. In the Morning just
before or at _Sun-rising_, call them to feed, and so at _Sun-se