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wont to fall upon the bay in her Newmarket stable. 

 The hens and turkeys are a great point here, and 

 seem to have a most lordly time of it among the 

 Portugal laurels. Turkey cocks and hens, by a sort 

 of mysterious etiquette, separate towards the middle 

 of the day, and sit demurely on separate rails. Mr. 

 Barclay is as choice*n these matters as he is in every 

 thing else, both inside and outside his house, and ad- 

 heres rigidly to the bronze- grey sort of Cambridge- 

 shire. The Norfolk cross rather spoilt his size, and 

 connoisseurs do say that the small black turkey from 

 the North of prance has done that county breed no 

 good. At Keavil they average, on their Indian corn, 

 meal, rice, and potatoes, about 191bs. all round at 6i 

 months, but many cf them are gradually killed off 

 as poults. 



But Mr. Easton will have us away among his 

 "sappy queens/' and we are not loath to obey the 

 call. " There," he observes, " is Frontlet from Mr. 

 Adkins ; Miss Burdett Coutts, the one nearest you. 

 The twins, red and roan, you remember, only the 

 roan has lost a piece of her tail. They both had 

 calves when they were only twenty-five months old. 

 They're always together. The roan's milked three 



times a day : we're a little kind to her Yes, 



Mr. Culshaw always says that he thinks ' he'll give 

 them a little something to eat.' Well, well ! I dare 

 say we both mean the same. Mr. Culshaw's a man 

 of discernment. The roan 's Lady Mary and the 

 red 's Lady Anne: they are from Cruickshank's 



