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the hen till they are strong enough to follow 

 her, and are fed with those various compounds 

 which good housewives prepare. It is a com- 

 mon practice to give each young turkey a pep- 

 percorn the first thing, but good judges dis- 

 approve of it, and prefer to feed them with 

 chopped docks and oatmeal. Many broods of 

 young poultry, and especially turkeys, which, 

 as they are the hardiest of birds when grown, 

 are certainly the most tender at first, must have 

 a careful lad to tend them, and to see that the 

 hen does not weary them by her wanderings ; 

 that they are not overtaken by rain, or get into 

 other dangers : — such are the cares of hatching- 

 time. 



ANGLING. 



Grayling, perch, dace, are not in best season, 

 nor chub till the middle of the month : nor 

 barbel during the latter half of it. Salmon is 

 improving ; and trout comes in and may be 

 sought in his beautiful clear streams with a 

 minnow, or palmer-worm, or with the fly. The 

 chub takes the worm, and the pike the lob- 

 worm, minnow, or other small fish. The tench 

 is a lively prey, this month, baiting with a good 

 worm. Cotton says the grayling is never out of 

 season, and reckons him yet a winter-fish. Wal- 

 ton declares him to be " a pleasant fish and a 



