pricking a stick fast in the
ground, tye the one end to it, and let your Nets fall as you walk
briskly round without stopping, and cover the _Partridge_; then rush in
upon them to frighten them, and as they rise they are taken.

For taking them with _Bird-Lime_, thus. Call first near the _Haunt_; if
answered, stick about your _Lime-Straws_ (of which I have spoken before)
a-cross in ranks two or three Lands, at some distance from you; then
call again, and as they approach you, they are intercepted by the
Straws; and to your Prey. This way is used most successfully in
Stubble-Fields, from _August_ to _September_: And Rods in Woods,
Pastures, _&c._ as for the _Pheasant_.

But lastly, above all (to omit all others) the most pleasant way of
taking Partridge is with a _Setting-Dog_ (of which I have spoken before
and refer you thither) who having set them, (known by the already
mentioned signs) use your Net, as you have heard just now: And by these
Rules and Method, the _Railes_, _Quailes_, _Moorpootes_, _&c._ are to be
taken; and are for _Hawks_ flight too. And here I must make an end of
the most material part of _Fowling_.

For as for treating of all manner of _Singing Birds_, their _Taking_,
which in general hath been before observed, their _Preserving_ and
_Keeping_, their _Natural Breeding_ and _Feeding_, is a Work of such
common Observation, and so differing from the Design of this Treatise of
_Violent_ and _Brisk Exercises_, that omitting it altogether here, shall
refer you to the Venders of them, whom you may meet with in every
Street, and furnish your self at easy rates; and are indeed but _Voces &
praeterea Nihil_.

Thus much for _Fowling_.

Of Fishing.

So _Ancient_, so _Innocent_, so _Vertuous_, and so _Useful_ is this
Recreation, that all the foregoing Divertisements, must needs give place
to this, and however (inadvertently) it comes in here, challenges a
Preference, and Acceptance before any Pleasure can by the heart of Man
be desired. As for its _Antiquity_ some attribute its Knowledge to
_Belus_ Son of _Nimrod_, who first invented all Vertuous Sports; others
to _Seth_ and his Sons, he having left it on brazen Pillars engraven
with indelible Characters not to be obliterated by the ensuing Flood.
_Job_ makes mention of Fishing, who Lived as may be supposed before
_Moses_; nor is it questionable, whether the illustrious Patriarchs used
not this Recreation. Certain it is, there were many _Fishermen