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 tie Wood-Lark's Visuals, the fame r.s you 

 do a Linnet. You nlay take them when 

 about twelve or fourteen Days oki -, when 

 vou have kept them three, four or fiveDays, 

 or aWeek, you may begin to Pipe, Whiftle, 

 or Talk to"^ them what you have a Mind 

 they fhould learn ; they are Birds that take 

 it oretty foon. I know a Gentleman that 

 Piped to one from a Fortnight old to fix 

 Weeks, and then being obliged to leave his 

 Bird and go into the Country, he ftaid ther« 

 for fiX months, and when he came Home 

 aeai'n, his Bird whiilled near three Parts of 

 the Tune, notwichllanding he had no Body- 

 to Pioe or Tune to him in his Abfence. 



1o know a Cock from a Hen. 



TH E R E are feveral Opinions, fome 

 fay by the Whitenefs of their Rump, 

 others, by the Bluenefs of their Back, and 

 others'by a caft of reddilh Feathers under 

 the Wings. I'he beft Way that I could 

 find, was topull ahoi.t half a Dozen Fea- 

 thers off their Brcaftwhen they are about 

 three Weeks old ; then in about ten or 

 twelve Davs after, you will perceive the 

 Feathers to come where you have pulled, as 

 red as Blood, if a Cock, if a Hen, they 

 will come of a paleifh brown, tho' I have 

 known both to whiftle and Ipeak, yet^a 

 Cock is far more beautiful, and better_ for 



Learning. 



