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with eafe a piece of bread half the fize of a halfpenny loaf. 
Ponds fhould be well fupplied with water during the winter; 
and when they are covered with ice, holes fhould be opened 
every day for the admiffion of frefh air, through want of 
which, Carps frequently perifh. Carp are fometimes fed, 
during the colder feafon, in a cellar: the fifth is wrapped up 
in a quantity of wet mofs laid on a piece of a net, and then 
laid in to a purfe; but in fuch a manner, however, to ad- 
mit of the fifh breathing: the net is then plunged into water, 
and hung up to the ceiling of the cellar: the dipping muft at 
firft be repeated every three or four hours, but, afterwards, 
it need be plunged into the water only once in fix or feven 
hours: bread foaked in milk is fometimes given him in {mall 
quantities; in a fhort time, the fifh will bear more, and 
grow fat by this treatment. Many have’ been kept alive, 
breathing nothing but air in this way, feveral fucceflive days. 
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