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very much on them, and in wet weather they are more ex- 

 posed to the owl than to any other vermin. The grey owl 

 is destroyed by the game-keepers, and by felling the pollards. 

 I have seen a young hare in their nests, but never saw a 

 young pheasant or partridge : — the white, or church owl, 

 are not so destru6live to game; and were there places 

 made within side the top of one end of every barn, like a 

 box, for them to pass through as they come into the barn, 

 they would there make their nests, and become more nu- 

 merous, and be of great service. 



S. JOHNSON.'* 



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 Bow-Sueel, Covent-Carden. S 



