The Form and Manner of the Sparrow-Net,
as it is fixed together.
THis
Sparrow-Net is to be used Early in the
Morning, or Late at
Night as before No∣ted,
and must be set, or fixed against the Eaves
of
Houses, Barns, Dovehouses and such like
places, as also against Stacks of
Corn or
Hay;
and if they were thatcht it were the better, and
being set close against them to knock and thrust
the
Cross-Staves close against the same, making a
noise to force them to fly out into the
Net, and
immediately draw the long single
Line, and shut
up the
Cross-Staves close; and so take out the
Birds.
The chief Benefit of this Net is either to de∣stroy
the Sparrows that lye about your Yards,
Orchards, and Fields, devouring the Corn and
spoiling the Fruit, or for the Mewing of Hawks,
or getting such as are Weak and Sick into Strength;
for with this Net you may take Morning and E∣vening
such quantities as are sufficient to give
them warm to your Hawks, which is a great
Nourishment, and makes them Mew faster; or if
for a weak Person, enough to make some Broath.