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lings received not the least harsh usage; 
and yet he bathed among the latter. But 
what is singular, he was not gentle to my 
neighbour's poultry ; and I was often obliged 
to publish that I would pay for the damages 
that he might occasion. However, he was 
frequently fired at, and at different times re- 
ceived fifteen musket-shots without suffering 
any fracture ; but once, early in the morn- 
ing, hovering over the skirts of a forest, he 
dared to attack a fox ; and the keeper, seeing 
him on the shoulders of the fox, fired two 
shots at him: the fox was killed and the 
Buzzard had his wing broken ; yet notwith- 
standing this fracture, he escaped from the 
keeper, and was lost seven days. This man 
having discovered, from the noise of the bell, 
that he was my bird, came next morning to 
inform me. I sent to make search near the 
spot ; but the bird could not be found, nor 
did it return till seven days after. I had 
been used to call him every evening with a 
whistle, which he did not answer for six 
days ; but on the seventh day I heard a 
feeble cry at a distance, which I judged to 
be that pf my Buzzard; I repeated the 
