122 Fheasants. 



that she cannot get to the young pheasants, 

 but that they may go to her : and feed 

 them with boiled egg cut small, boiled milk 

 and bread, alum curd, ants' eggs, a little 

 of each sort, and often. 



After two or three days they will be ac- 

 quainted w^ith the call of the hen that hatch- 

 ed them, then they may have their liberty 

 to run on the grass plat, or elsewhere, 

 observing to shift them with the sun, and 

 out of the cold winds ; they need not have 

 their liberty in the morning till the sun is 

 up ; and they must be shut in with the hen 

 in good time in the evening. 



Every thing now going on properly, you 

 must be very careful (in order to guard 

 against the distemper to which they are 

 liable) in your choice of a situation for 

 breeding the birds up ; and be less afraid 

 of foxes, dogs, pole cats, and all sorts of 

 vermin, than the distemper, I had rather 

 encounter all the former than the latter ; 

 for those with care may be prevented, but 

 the distemper once got in is like the plague, 

 and destroys all your hopes. What I mean 



