60 DUCK. 



dwalloTTs whatever is presented to it, and very rarely occasions 

 trouble. Though fowls must be provided with a roof and a 

 decent habitation, and supplied with com, which is costly, the 

 cottage garden waste, and the snails and slugs which are gener- 

 ated there, with the kitchen scraps and offal, furnish the hardy 

 ducks with the means of subsistence. And at night they require 

 no better lodgings than a nook in an open shed; if a house be 

 expressly made for them, it need not necessariljr be more than 

 ofew feet in height, nor of better materials than rough boards 

 and clay mortar, a door being useless, unless to secure them 

 Irom thieves. 



