Barbarou-s Modes. ^7 



hen's nostrils, in order to prevent her from 

 sitting ; and to give her half a glass of gin, 

 then swing her round until seemingly dead, 

 and confine her in a pot, during a day or 

 two, leaving her only a small breathing 

 hole, to force her to sit ! It is full time 

 tliat tliese and a hundred other such utterly 

 useless and barbarous folliCvS of former 

 days, practised upon various animals, should 

 be dismissed with the contempt they me- 

 rit The pamphlet alluded to, is the Epi- 

 cure, by Thomas Young, a publication re- 

 plete with good things, on the interest- 

 ing subjects of eathig, wines, spirits, beer, 

 cider, planting, &c It is written with 

 liciut gout. 



Every succeeding year after the third, 

 the hen continues to moult later in the 

 season, and laying fewer or no eggs du- 

 ring tlie moulting period, vv'hich is sometimes 

 protracted to two or three months. It 

 should seem that old hens are seldom to 

 be depended upon for eggs in the winter, 

 such being scarcely full of feather until 

 Christmas ; and then, probably, may not 



