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Bird, if he can be kept from hearing other 

 Birds, but if he hears others, he is a 

 perfeel: Mock-Bird, and will take what he 

 hears, -whether good or bad, efpecially them 

 that are brought up from the Ned, which 

 I take to be beft, provided you can get 

 a good Song-Bird to bring them up, X 

 have known them fold for five or fix Gui- 

 neas a Bird. They are very long livVl 

 Bird, and very hardy •, Imylelfhave bid 

 twenty Shillings for a Bird that was twenty 

 Years of Age •, they have young ones about 

 the middle or letter end of April; and 

 breed three or four Times in the Year, but 

 I look upon a Bird that is hatch'd in Jp} it 

 or May to be the beft. Thev commonlv 

 breed in your Fields of high Grafs, or in 

 the Marihes. I have had them in a Wheat 

 Field, or in Peas or Oats, according to the 

 Seafon of the Year. I have taken them up- 

 on the Common or Heath, 



Hozv to feed them, 



LE T them be, before you take them, 

 about ten or twelve Days old, if they 

 are older, they are apt to run out of theiV 

 Neft. I have i^tn them run out in ten Da} s 

 in dripping Weather. When you have ta- 

 ken them, put a little Hay in a BalKet, and 

 put them in, and tie ihem clofe dovn, as J 

 told you by the Wojd-Larks, and take a 

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