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Title: The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ... With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ... And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents
Year: 1778 (1770s)
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Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Printed for Fielding and Walker
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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feet from the ground, and lettingthe lower part follow Hoping about half afoot from the ground, upon which nothingmuft drag but the three fmall branches O,P, Q_£ the cord and the buflies muft dragon the ground, and fhould not be above twofeet long; when the partridges rife, bothmuft let go their hands, and let the net fallon the ground upon them. Sometimes it fo happens, that the par-tridges rife before the net is over them,which may be occafioned by the too greatnoife you make ; tlierefore be as ftill as pof-fible, and if fo, let them reft two or threehours, before you attempt any thing again,then march over the whole field with yournet ready fet, and it is a great chance butyou meet them at laft. This fport muft not be followed neitherwhen the moon fliines, nor when it fnows ;fome carry a light, or fome fire with them,the better to difcover the partridges: whichwhen they fee, they take it to be day-light,and are difcovered by the noife they make in waking. Tiu^xn^. Sprea^i Nct>
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:Fiir.4 S P R waking, and ftretching out their wings;then they hide the light, and draw the netover them. In order to carry fuch a light, they fallenthe bottom of a corn-biifhel, or the like, tothe breafi, and the mouth thereof beingturned towards the partridges, they place atin lamp, made on purpofe, in the bottomthereof, with a wick or match, as big as amans little finger, fo that the light can onlybe feen right forward, and not flde-w.iys.Other inventions there are, and more maybe found out, to carry lights for this purpofe,with which I fhall not amufe the reader:that perfon who has a mind to take a coveyof partridges alone by himfelf, mull: preparetwo polesx made of a willow, or fome otherwood both ftrait and light, bigger at oneend than at the other, and about twelve orfifteen feet long, to which he is to fatten hisnet, as may be feen by the figure. No. i. The poles muft be fattened along the fidesQ^ S, and T, R, with pack-threads, in fucha manner that their thickeft ends may be

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