or Daring, among sportmen, a term used to express a method of taking larks, by means of a clap-net and a looking-glass. For this sport there must be provided four sticks very straight and light, about the bigness of a pipe; two of these are to be four feet nine inches long, and all notched at the edges or the ends. At one end of each of these sticks there is to be fastened another of about a foot long on one side; and on the other side a small wooden peg about three inches long. Then four or more sticks are to be prepared, each of one foot length; and each of these must have a cord of nine feet long fastened to it at the end. Every one should have a buckle for the commodious fastening on to the respective sticks when the net is to be spread.—A cord must also be provided, which must have two branches. The one must have nine feet and a half, and the other ten feet long, with a buckle at the end of each; the rest, or body of the cord, must be 24 yards long. All these cords, as well the long ones as those about the sticks, must be well twisted and of the bigness of one's little finger. The next thing to be provided is a staff of four feet long, pointed at one end, and with a ball of wood at the other, for carrying these conveniences in a pack or wallet.—There should also be carried, on this occasion, a spade