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water so as to keep every grain separate. Cooks know how 

 to do this in boiling it for curry, and they will readily show 



TEN FOR YOUNG PHEASANTS. 



the method to the keeper if he is ignorant of it. Curds 

 chopped fine may also be mixed with barley meal, which 

 should be of such a consistency as to be capable of being 

 divided into little pellets of the size of half a pea. Bread 

 crumbs softened with milk; ants' eggs and scoured gentles 

 may also be given the two last being especially useful. 

 Change of food is most essential ; and it is better never to 

 give any of the above kinds consecutively, or at all events 

 not more than twice, though ants' eggs can scarcely be given 

 too freely. The feeding should be at first five or six times 

 a-day, gradually reducing the number to three at the end of 

 a fortnight. 



In procuring the above kinds of food the great difficulty is 

 with the ants' eggs, which are very scarce in some localities. 

 It is worth while, however, to take a good deal of trouble to 

 obtain them ; and there are few counties which are without 

 waste ground on which they are to be found. Next to them 

 come the gentles, which are easily bred and scoured in the 

 following mode: Procure any kind of flesh, or the body of 



