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Concord, Mass.
1916

  Both birds were soon afterwards put in a small, grass-grown
enclosure which had no other occupant save one of the foster-
mothers already mentioned and she had been removed
when I first saw them there - on August 30. They were
then more than one-half grown and already well-feathered.
We separated them a month or so later, placing the
Goose in a large poultry yard tenanted by about fifty
adult Plymouth Rock hens and a few roosters, the Guinea fowl
in a smaller one devoted to chickens of various ages.
This arrangement proved ill-advised for during the
remainder of that day each bird refused to eat and
tried persistently to escape, by thrusting its head and neck through
meshes of a wire fence, or else paced ceaselessly to and fro,
calling piteously and evidently "pining for its lost
comrade" as my foreman said. So we
took the Guinea-hen to the larger enclosure next morning