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young they will leave their ncft ; I have been 
‘ ‘ ' iP ;’°' med at fuch •' time > when I thought it 
ulmoft impoErble for them to get away : 0 ne 
would naturally think the neft to be the bed 
and fafefl place for them in fuch weather , but 
J ° 11 1S ’ 1 have remarked it often, that the 
young of moil, if not all kinds of birds, are 
nourilhed more, their feathers grow falter, and 
they fooner fly, or quit their nefts, in wet, than 
in dry weather. 
i When you have taken a neft of young, put 
them into a baiket with fome fhort clean hay at 
me Dottom, cover and tie them down cLofe and 
warm, and feed them with white bread and 
milk boiled thick, mixed with about a third 
part of rape feed, foakecl, boiled, and bruifed : 
aome bring them up with fheep’s heart minced 
very fine, or other flefh meat. I cannot too 
often repeat the care that is necefiary, in bring- 
ing up young birds, in keeping them clean, and 
feeding them regularly once in about two hours, 
from morning till night, with frefih and whole- 
fome food, as the principal means of preferving 
them : in a week’s time you may cage them in a 
large cage, putting fome hay cut pretty Ihcrt, or 
coarfe bran, at the bottom, turning or {Lifting 
it every day. Order them after this manner till 
l-hey can feed themfelves with dry meat, viz. 
bread, egg, and hemp-feed, which they will 
do in about three weeks, or a month. Remem- 
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