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her chickens, and loseth her feathers. And her kindly love 
about her chickens is known by roughness of feathers, and- 
by hoarseness of voice. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 18. 
[N.B. In the article from which the above is an extract,. 
the word “chickens” is spelt as: follows: chekyns, chekens, 
chekynnes, chekennes, chykynnes, chykyns,. and chykens.] 
Aw odd number of eggs should always be put under a 
Hen, and that while the moon is waxing from the tenth 
to the fifteenth day. The flesh of hens clears the voice. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. ch, Iii. 
Tue Hens of country-houses have a certain ceremonious 
religion. When they have laid an egg, they fall a trembling 
and quaking, and all to shake themselves. They turn about 
also, as in procession, to be purified, and with some festue 
[or fescue, a straw] or such like thing, they keep a ceremony 
of hallowing, as well themselves as their eggs. 
Hollana’s Pliny, bk. x. ch, xli. 
Ir it thunder while she is broody the eggs will be addle, 
yea, and if-the Hen chance but to hear an hawk cry they 
will be marred. The remedy against thunder is to put an 
iron nail under the straw of the Hen’s nest, or else some 
earth newly turned up with the plough. 
. Ibid., ch. liv. 
Ar this day, the English inhabitants eat almost no flesh 
more commonly than Hens. 
Fynes Moryson, “ Itinerary,” bk. iii. ch, iti. 
V. Fowl. 
Herb. 
SEEDS AND HERBS FOR THE KITCHEN. 
Avens—Betony—Bleets or Beets, white or yellow—Blood- 
wort—Bugloss—Burnet—Borage—Cabbage, remove in June 
— Clary — Coleworts — Cresses — Endive — Fennel — French 
Mallows—French Saffron, set in August—Lang de Beef— 
