200 



WILD TURKEY. 



the year 1585; for we may certainly depend on the word of old 

 TuJJer, in his account of the Chrijimas hufbandlie fare *. 



Beefe, mutton, and porke, flired pies of the beft. 

 Pig, veale, goofe and capon, and T«ril/> well dreil ; 

 Cheefe, apples, and nuts, jplie carols to heare. 

 As then in the countrie, is counted good cheare. 



But at this very time they were fo rare in France, that wc are 

 told that the very firft which was eaten in that kingdom appeared at 

 the nuptial feaft o( Charles IX. in 1570-!-. 



They are now very common in all parts of Rujfta, but will not 

 thrive in Sibiria. Are cultivated in Sweden, and even in Norwajj, 

 where they degenerate in fize J» 



* Five hundred pointes of good hujbandrie, P- 57* 



t dfider/on's Diii. Comm, i. 410. % Pantop}, 71* 



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