The Hare pipe.
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A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
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- A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
- Author
- Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne,
- [1590]
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- Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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THis Engine is called a Hare pipe, because it is made
hollow, they are commonly made for the hare, of pipes
of Elder, of sixe or seuen inches long, and for the Foxes
and dogges, they are made of yrne plate, nie ten or eleuen
inches long, with two sharpe pikes in the mouth thereof,
and the more they plucke and drawe, the more it strikes in
and peirce the flesh of the beast. And also for the Foxe or o∣ther
such, it shall be good to arme the string or line with
red wiar fer wéering. Which line, the one end is put in at
a hole made in the pipe side, as ye may sée, and so drawne
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double out at the mouth of the same. The other end comes through the pipe, and is tide vnto some pinne set fast in the ground, or to some bough. They are commonly set in mu∣ses where they passe through: but for the Foxe, they pitch the hare pipe in some places, at the mouth of his hole, when he is hunted or other wise, or in musis where he hauntes to meus houses in killing their lambes, pigges, or other poultrie. Then sée that ye stoppe all other passages there aboutes, so shall ye be sure to saue your poultre, or else to take him. Ye may make traines at your pipe hole, as is afore mentioned of the other.