THE LOCATION OF THE GARDEN 



which had always been confined, have evinced not 

 the slightest inclination to stray, but stay content- 

 edly in their park, coming up en masse each night 

 to be fed. Yet I feel not a shadow of a doubt that 

 had their parents been brought up on my own 

 premises their offspring would have proven as 

 predatory as the descendants of my own hens. 



This may seem a far call from the subject, but 

 it is a point which is likely to be called to the atten- 

 tion of the gardener in a very forcible manner any 

 fine summer day, when he finds, as I did the past 

 summer, his bed of prize lettuce, or other product 

 of his tender care, practically exterminated by a 

 few moments' visit of a flock of chickens. How- 

 ever, I can assure him he will not feel half as bad 

 about it as he would had they been his neighbours' 

 chickens. 



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