lve score one from another, as the River or Brook will afford. And
doubt not your success. To expedite it however, a _Gun_ fired three or
four times in the _Fens_ and _Plashes_, a good distance from your Nets,
will affright and post them to your Snares; and so do at the _Rivers_,
when you lay in the _Fens_. Thus much in general for _Nets_, I come next
to _Bird-Lime_.

_Winter time_ is the most proper for taking all manner of _Small Birds_,
as flocking then promiscuously together, _Larks_, _Lennets_,
_Chaffinches_, _Goldfinches_, _Yellow-Hammers_, &c. with this
_Bird-lime_, made as afore-spoken; only additionally thus ordered. Put
to a quarter of a pound of _Bird-lime_, an Ounce of fresh _Lard_, or
_Capons-grease_, and let it gently melt together over the Fire, but not
Boyl; then take a quantity of _Wheat-ears_, as you think your use shall
require, and cut the straw about a foot long besides the Ears, and from
the Ear _Lime_ the straw Six inches; the warmer it is, the less
discernable it will be: Then to the _Field_ adjacent, carrying a bag of
Chaff, and thresh'd Ears, scatter them twenty Yards wide, and stick the
_lim'd Ears_ (declining downwards) here, and there; Then traverse the
_Fields_, disturb their _Haunts_, they will repair to your Snare, and
pecking at the Ears, finding they stick to them, mount; and the _Lim'd_
straws, lapping under their Wings, dead their flight, they cannot be
disengaged, but fall and be taken they must. Do not go near them, till
they rise of their own accord, and let not five or six entangled lead
you to spoyl your Game, and incur the loss of five or six dozen.
_Barn-doors_, _Thatcht-Houses_, and such like places, are excellent too
for the use of these _Lime-straws_. _A Clap- Net_, and _Lanthorn_, in a
dark night rub'd at the Eaves of Houses, is a common practice.

_Lime-Twigs_, is another Expedient for taking of Great _Fowle_, being
Rods that are long, small, straight, and pliable, the upper part (apt to
play to and fro) being besmeared with _Bird-lime_ warm. Thus to be used,
Observe the Haunts of the _Fowle_, have a _Stale_, (a living Fowle of
the same kind you would take) and cross pricking your Rods, one into,
and another against the Wind sloping, 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 _Fowle_ down. If any
be caught, do not run presently upon them, their fluttering will