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bath. It immediately occurred to me, that in 

 teaching an animal to dance by means of heat, the 

 heat ought to be tempered by something similar to 

 the sand-bath. I therefore determined to make a 

 new trial ; and, having no dog at hand, I made 

 choice of four good-looking turkies, two males and 

 two females. I made two cages ; the bottom of one 

 was made of tin plates, upon which I strewed a 

 certain portion of fine sand. Then I put fire under 

 the cage. The turkies were in the other cage, 

 which had a door of communication with the one 

 having a tin bottom. When I thought the bottom 

 of the cage sufficiently hot, I drove the turkies 

 from the one to the other, shut the door, and be- 

 gan to strike rapidly and loudly upon the triangle, 

 which I held in my hand. The sensation of heat 

 which the turkies experienced, caused them to skip 

 about as if they had been possessed with some evil 

 spirit. After letting them continue their exercise 

 for a quarter of an hour or so, I opened the door 

 and drove them back into the first cage, and at 

 the same time stopped playing. Then I fed them 

 vvell, and lastly turned them loose in the yard. 

 The next day, I made them go through the same 

 ceremony, before I gave them any thing to eat, 

 and so on, for a quarter of an hour or more every 

 day, for ten days ; at the end of which, I struck 

 upon the triangle before I turned them into the 



