om. Pull away the Feathers, open and thrust out the Core, and wash
the Sore with Water and Salt, or Brine.

For the _Pip_; visit the mouth, and examine what hinders your _Cocks_,
_Hen_, or _Chicks_ feeding, and you'll find a white thin Scale on the
Tip of the Tongue, which pull off with your Nail, and rubbing the Tongue
with Salt, will cure it.

For the _Flux_; proceeding from eating too moist Meat, give them
Pease-Bran scalded, will stop it.

For the _Stoppage of the Belly_, that they cannot mute; anoint their
Vents, and give them either small bits of Bread or Corn, steep'd in
_Urine_ of Man.

And now I have one Word of Advice to him that is a Lover (or would be
so) of this _Royal-Sport_: and then have done: _Come not to the Pit
without Money in your Breeches, and a Judgment of Matches_; Done and
Done is _Cock-Pit_ Law, and if you venture beyond your Pocket, you must
look well to it, or you may lose an Eye by the Battle.

_Of FOWLING._

The _Ingenious Fowler_, like a Politick and sagacious Warrier, must
first furnish and store himself with those several Stratagems and
Engines, as suit with the diversities of _Occasion_, _i.e._ _Time_,
_Place_, and _Game_; or else he cannot expect the _Conquest_.

And first of _Nets_, which must be made of the best Pack-thread; and for
taking great _Fowl_, the Meshes must be large, two Inches at least from
point to point, the larger the better; (provided the _Fowl_ creep not
through;) two Fathom deep, and six in length, is the best and most
manageable Proportion; Verged with strong Cord on each side, and
extended with long Poles at each end made on purpose. But for small
_Water-fowl_, let your Nets be of the smallest and strongest
Pack-thread, the Meshes so big, as for the great _Fowl_, about two or
three foot deep: Line these on both sides with false Nets, every Mesh a
foot and half Square. For the _Day-Net_, it must be made of fine
Pack-thread, the Mesh an Inch square, three Fathom long, and one broad,
and extended on Poles according to its Length, as aforesaid.

_Birdlime_ is the next, and thus made. Pill the Bark of _Holly_ from the
Tree at _Midsummer_, fill a Vessel, and put to it running Water; boil it
over the Fire till the Grey and White Bark rise from the Green; take it
off the Fire, drain the Water well away, and separate the Barks; and
take the Green, lay it on some moist floor and close place, and cover it
with Weeds; let it lye a fortnight, and in that time