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A bread-grater is essential ; and if there are many 

 birds, either a mortar or a small coffee mill is a 

 serviceable addition. A mortar costs about a sove- 

 reign, and is hard work to pound in ; a coffee mill 

 costs three shillings, is no trouble at all, and does- 

 its work better ; so I recommend the coffee mill. 



A glass dish for a bath, a wire basket for sus- 

 pending it in the aviary, and a sieve for sifting 

 the seed and sand from the husks or dirt, will be 

 also wanted. All these things, however, are matters' 

 of taste and means. 



My pet Goldfinch of all lives in a sixpenny cage, 

 and himself cost half-a-crown ; living quite con- 

 tentedly with his tin to drink from and his trough of 

 seed. And as these moderate accommodations are> 

 all that are really requisite, I do not think that 

 bird-keeping is necessarily a very expensive pleasure, 

 whilst, of my own experience, I know it to be a 

 great one. 



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