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" If he appear sluggish and melancholy, give 

 him half an ounce of diapente in a pint of good old 

 Malaga sack, which will both cleanse his body and 

 revive his spirits. 



*' For the first week feed him continually with 

 bread, oats and split beans, giving him sometimes 

 the one and sometimes the other, according to what 

 he likes best, always leaving him some in his locker 

 to eat at leisure when you are absent ; and when 

 you return at your hours of feeding, take away 

 what is left, giving him fresh till you have made 

 him wanton and playful/^ 



In the second week, I read, the oats, beans 

 and bread are to be " ordered after another man- 

 ner," for the oats must be dried in the sun, put 

 into a clean bag, and " soundly beat "" with a 

 flail or cudgel. The beans must be treated in a 

 similar manner, and the bread must have its crust 

 cut off. Such bread has to be made according to 

 the following recipe : 



" Take two pecks of beans and a peck of wheat. 



Let them be ground together, but not too fine, 



to prevent too much bran being in the 

 Bread- ^ ® 



making for bread ; dress one peck of the meal 



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through a fine range and knead it up 

 with new ale yeast, and the whites of a dozen new- 

 laid eggs ; bake this in a loaf by itself, but dress 



