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breathe I put her in again. Being determined to 

 test the virtue of this mode of proceeding, I put 

 her into the water a third time, and then put her 

 back into the cage. I kept her, I think, nearly 

 three months after this, her feathers soon came 

 on again, and she sung sweetly,^ and never had 

 another fit, at least when with me. 



ASTHMA. If you have a bird attacked with 

 this disorder, which you will know by its making 

 a croaking or wheezing noise when it breathes, 

 take a piece of baker's bread, soak it in water, 

 then squeeze the water out of it, and boil it well 

 in milk. Give them freely of this every day, with 

 plenty of cabbage or lettuce, and if your bird is 

 not a very old one it will soon recover. 



DIARRHOEA. Put a piece of rusty iron in your 

 water-dish, (and do not change the water oftener 

 than twice a week.) and bread boiled in milk, as 

 for the asthma; boil it well in this case, so as 

 when it is cold it will cut like cheese ; give them 

 freely of it, and plenty of vegetables. For young 

 Canaries and other seed birds, mix with the paste 

 some scalded rape seed ; this mode of treatment 

 for this disease is generally successful. 



DISEASES OF THE FEET. Thrushes, and other 



* The female of this species sings. 



