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In a week's time you may put them into a 

 large cage, with some hay cut rather short, 

 or coarse bran at the bottom, turning or 

 shifting it every day, till they are able to 

 feed themselves, which they will do in three 

 weeks or a month, when they may be put 

 into a regular lark cage, giving them a 

 fresh turf once or twice a week, with some 

 fine dry gravel sifted at the bottom of the cage. 

 Remember, the gravel ought to be changed 

 every two or three days, in order that it 

 may not clog the feet. When they are able 

 to feed themselves, you must give them 

 bread and egg, mixed with hemp seed, which 

 ought to be bruised for a week or two at 

 the first, till they are strong enough to crack 

 it themselves; a little butcher's meat, free 

 from fat, and cut small, may also be given 

 occasionally, by way of change: after they 

 have moulted, you may give them bread 

 and egg, with whole hemp seed, every other 

 day, and a fresh turf every week, by which 

 management, as they are very hardy birds, 

 you may preserve them a number of years. 

 The sky lark is seldom affected with any 

 disorder, though he is sometimes apt to 



