CHAP. II.] 



POLE-HOUSE. 



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being idle, a good pair of parent birds will produce 

 quite a little flock by the end of the summer. 



But the old manorial Dovecote belonging to bygone 

 days is a substantial cubical building, with a pyrami- 

 dal tiled roof, surmounted by an unglazed lantern by 

 which the Pigeons enter. It frequently forms the upper 

 half of a square turret, and then can only be entered 



