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is prefenc' death, unlefs he has fome help fpeedU- 
ly given him. 
The bell methods to prevent it are, to keep 
him warm and clean in his cage; that his feet' 
be not clogged, whereby the joints are fre- 
quently taken off, and the dung is fo fall bound 
on, that it makes his nails and feet rot off,-, 
which takes away the very life and fpirit of the 
bird. 
If you perceive him drooping and fickly, give 
him three or four meal-worms, or worms taken 
out of pidgeon-houfes, and a few fpiders, which 
will purge and cleanfe him well, and it will 
mi htily refrefh him. 
Lut, for the giddinefs of the head, give him' 
f-x or feven ear-wigs in a week, and he will ne- 
ver be troubled with it. 
If you find he has little appetite to eat, 
give him, now and then, ilx or feven hog-lice, 
which may be found in any piece of old rotten 
wood, and let him never want water that is 
frefh, two or three times a-week. 
There are many kinds cf in feels that b'rds 
will eat greadily, and very probably would re- 
lieve them under fuch maladies, could they be 
conveniently procured at all times, fuch as young- 
finooth caterpillars, (a Robin will not touch a 
ha ; rv one) fome forts of fpiders, ants, See. but 
there is no infedl that is more innocent, or a=~ 
grees better with birds in general, than the 
