or Daring, among sportsmen, 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 pike; 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 sack or wallet.—There should also be carried, on this occasion, a spade to level the ground where there may be any little irregularities; and two small rods, each 18 inches long, and having a small rod fixed with a pack-thread at the larger end of the other. To these are to be tied some pack-thread loops, which are to fasten in the legs of some larks: and there are to be reels to these, that the birds may fly a little way up and down. When all this is done, the looking-glass is to be prepared in the following manner: Take a piece of wood about an inch and a half thick, and cut it in form of a bow, so that there may be about nine inches space between the two ends; and let it have its full thickness at the bottom, that it may receive into it a false piece; in the five corners of which there are to be set in five pieces of looking-glass. These are so fixed, that they may dart their light upwards; and the whole machine is to be supported on a moveable pin, with the end of a long line fixed to it, and made in the manner of the children's plaything of an apple and a plumbstone; so that the other end of the cord being carried through a hedge, the barely pulling it may set the whole machine of the glasses a turning. This and the other contrivances are to be placed in the middle between the two nets. The larks fixed to the place, and termed calls, and the glittering of the looking-glasses as they twirl round in the sun, invite the other larks down; and the cord that communicates with the nets, and goes through the hedge, gives the person behind an opportunity of pulling up the nets, so as to meet over the whole, and take every thing that is between them. The places where this sort of sporting succeeds best are open fields remote from any trees and hedges except one by way of shelter for the sportsman: and the wind should always be either in the front or back; for if it blows sidewise, it prevents the playing of the net.