DOMESTIC POULTKT. 



rotmd and round the garden, and seemed to enjoy the ftin 

 mightily. Poor Thomas was oftentimes nearly driven mad witL 

 their obstreperons behaviour ; and, says my nnmercifiil friend, he 

 has often had a hearty laugh at the poor lad's expense, for 

 very often he was so hardly pressed by the birds, that he had 

 ^nothing to do but to stand with his back to the wall and shove 

 them away with the broom. But one day — ^the binds being 

 unusually wild, and attacking the page in a most furious man- 

 ner — the poor fellow was so frightened that he jumped over 

 the garden wall, and, unfortunately, alighted on a rusty spade 

 on the other side, bruising himself in a most severe manner. 

 After this little episode, my friend's uncle — hitherto stoically 

 indifferent to his poor page's sufferings, and blindly enamoured 

 of the beautiful Cochins — was aroused from his apathy, and 

 determined to sell them at once, which he accordingly did, 

 to the unbounded joy and unfeigned pleasure of the wretched 

 Thomas. 



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