Lime-Twigs, is another Expedient for taking of great Fowl, being Rods that are long, small, strait, 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 Fowl, have a Stale, (a living Fowl 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 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-setting:  In the Fornoon, and Afternoon, your Note must be to Cluck them together to Brood, or to chide them for straggling, or to notify some danger at hand.