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the cage also in scalding suds made from car- 

 bolic soap. This will settle most of the tor- 

 ments; but if the bird is still suffering, take 

 him in your hand, and retire to the bath- 

 room ; hold him over a bath-tub or a bowl of 

 water; gently lift one wing after the other 

 and throw under it, from an insect-powder 

 gun, a goodly supply of Persian insect pow- 

 der. Try to send it under and among all his 

 feathers while you hold him loosely. 



Before you have finished you may find your 

 hand covered with his minute tormentors, 

 while the water in the bowl is liberally sprin- 

 kled with them. Then let him loose at once 

 in a cage you do not use. He will flutter and 

 beat his wings, and sometimes shake out thou- 

 sands of the enemy. I was never more as- 

 tounded than at the numbers that deserted a 

 flicker in my possession when treated thus. 



When he seems relieved, put him back into 

 his own thoroughly cleaned cage, and plunge 

 the temporary one into scalding suds for its 

 purification. This will always, I think, put an 

 end to .his misery. 



In any disease that you can diagnose ad- 

 minister the proper Specific. For example, a 



