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by a good situation is notliing more than a 

 place where no poultry, pheasants, or tur- 

 keys, &c. have ever been kept ; such as 

 the warm side of a field, orchard, pleasure 

 ground, or garden, or even on a common, 

 or a good green lane, under circumstances 

 of this kind ; or by a wood side ; but then 

 it is proper for a man to keep with them 

 under a temporary hovel, and to have two 

 or three dogs chained at a proper distance, 

 with a lamp or two at night. I have known 

 a great num])er of pheasants bred up in 

 this manner in the most exposed situations. 

 It is proper for the man always to have a gun, 

 that he may keep off the hawks, owls, jays, 

 magpies, &c. The dogs and lamps shy the 

 foxes more than any thing; and the dogs 

 will give tongue for the man to be on his 

 guard if smaller vermin are near, or when 

 strollers make their appearance. 



The birds going on as before mentioned, 

 should so continue till September, or (if 

 very early bred), the middle of August. 

 Before they begin to shift the long feathers 

 in tlie tail, they are to be shut up in the 



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