text:  At the end of these vistas which they call 'cock-roads ' the woodcock catchers suspend nets to intercept the birds in their evening and morning flights and great numbers are taken in this manner; the time when they suspend the nets is called roading-time; and thus by applying the term roading to disturbed and muttered sleep they compare the dim loose thoughts of the half-dreaming patient to the flight of the woodcocks wheeling their way through the gloomy and darkling woods