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themfelves the more on the lufcious aliment 

 of fummer rains ; which if deeper in the 

 ground would not reach them, neither fo 

 frequently-^nor effedually— 



In the center of every fuch filPd up hole^ 

 after the earth is a little fettl'd > let a fmall 

 one be made about the fize of a bufhel ^ 

 fpreading what thence arifes upon the former 

 earth ; let the faid little cavity, be prefently 

 again fiU'd with fome well digefted mold, 

 not muck ^ arifen from fome headland long 

 before dug up- — Or from fome common — Or 

 greenfward in the high way— Or fcowerings 

 ©f ditches-^Or pond mud well ventilated— 



The Chriftmas after being come ; by 

 which time, the field mice have laid up 

 their winter provifions ^ let the acorns be 

 taken out of their occafional refidence : Be- 

 caufe by that time they v/ill be chickt 5 and 

 half a dozen of the moft promiling of them, 

 be planted about three inches deep, within 

 the eompafs of every one of the fmall 

 holes ; prefling the earth down again gently 

 0ver them 3 



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