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
_Limed_ 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 Fowle 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. _Lime-twigs_ are likewise used, stuck on
_Hemp-cocks_, which take vast Numbers of _Lennets_, and _Green-Birds_,
that love that _Diet_. An _Owle_ placed near your _Lime-twigs_, is
likewise an Excellent _Stale_, for being persecuted by all other
_Birds_, they flock about him, and dye with Hatred; I mean, being taken
by you, in their eager, and malicious Persecution of poor _Tom_. Some
have Natural, others Artificial _Owles_, and with either fear not
Success. And thus you may do, in any particular _Game_, with your
_Twigs_, and _Stale_ of the same kind, as, _Snipes_, _Felfares_,
_Pigeons_, &c.

And here I must not forget the _Farmers_ Advantage, to destroy his
_Corn_-destroyers, _Rooks_, but give him this Advice: Take some thick
_Brown-paper_, divide a sheet into Eight parts, and make them into the
fashion of _Sugar-Loaves_; _Lime_ them a little in the inside, and put
some _Corn_ in them (if in _Ploughing_ time, _Wormes_, and _Maggots_)
lay _Three_ or _Four Score_ up and down the Land, under (if you can)
some Clod, early, before feeding time: Be at some distance, and behold
the ensuing Sport. Your _Pigeons_, _Rooks_, _Crows_, &c. comeing to pick
out the _Corn_ or _Worms_, the _Pyramidal-snare_ hangs on their heads,
they fly straight upright, almost out of sight, and as if some _Gun_ in
the Ayr had met with them, down they come tumbli