The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

DRAW-NET

—is used for taking birds of different kinds, but more particularly applied to the net made use of with the SETTING DOG for taking PARTRIDGES, by which mode the whole COVEY are frequently secured. The old birds are liberated, and the young destined to the table. This is, however, considered so destructive and unfair a practice, that it is continued but by very few, and those principally consist of RUSTIC TYRANTS, or rigid Cynics, who wish to monopolize not only the SPORT and the GAME, but all the good things of this life.