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not been disturbed for some years. You may breed 

 them in meal, in which they must be kept. These 

 birds are taken with a spring trap, which covers them 

 with a net. 



Food for them. 



For the nightingale, fresh lean meat, cut small, and 

 ants' eggs mixed. For woodlarks, paste made with 

 white pease-meal, eggs, fresh butter, and honey, slowly 

 "fried in an iron pan, till it becomes crisp ; put the butter 

 in first, then the eggs, and stir them, then the meal and 

 honey ; keep stirring them all the time. For canaries, 

 when moulting, foreign poppy seed, with boiled eggs and 

 crumbled bread mixed. 



Rheumatism in Dogs 



May be discovered by its local affection, and some- 

 times by a swelling in the neck, loins, or legs. Oppose 

 the first attack, and never suffer an animal to go into 

 the field when affected with the disease, or with cold. 

 Warm lodging, and two or three days' indulgence near a 

 good fire, with a dose or two of calomel, will generally 

 cure a first attack. Also, a warm bath for a quarter of an 

 hour, the dog being afterwards rubbed dry, and put to bed 

 warm : which may be frequently repeated, if necessary. 



To raise a perspiration, give forty or fifty drops of 

 laudanum, and two teaspoonfuls of spirit of ammonia, 

 or hartshorn, in warm beer, or cordial. Rub the parts 



