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The principal part of the linnets are bred on the wild gorse lands, and it is the wild weather such as we have had of late that drives them into the nets of the suburban fowler, who this year has been so lucky as to take five dozen of them at one pull of the clap-net. 

When flighting time is on, I go With clap-net and decoy, A-fowling after goldfinches And other birds of joy; I lurk among the thickets of The Heart where they are bred, And catch the twittering beauties as They fly into my Head.

You have now a portable bag, or "clap-net," of over 5 ft. high by 2 ft.

However, it may, perhaps, be necessary to describe how to make this machine or clap-net — fit only for dealers or exterminators.

First, then, comes the ordinary "clap-net" of the London and provincial bird-catchers.