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linnet. 
Of the To-'ing, how to order and bring them up. 
Some of thefe birds will have young ones 
three or four times a-year, efpecially if they 
be taken from them before they fly out of their 
nefis. 
They may be taken at ten days old, or fooi> 
er ■, put them in a fmall balket prepared for that 
purpofe ; be fare to keep them warm, and feed 
them once in two hours, from fix in the morn- 
ing till about fix or feven at night : prepare rape- 
feed foaked in water ten or twelve hours, then 
pour off your water, and let it boil up in more 
dean water, fcurh and drain it ; then bruife it 
very fmall, cleaning as many of the hulls from 
it as you can ; then take a piece of the beft 
white bread, fir ft foak it in clean water, then 
Dofl it in a little milk, to a thick confidence j 
take one-third rape-feed, and mix them toge- 
tlier, till it become a loft pafle or crowdy, ma- 
iling but little at a time, that they may have it 
irelh every day ; becaufe four meat will throw 
tne birds into a fcouring, which often kills 
them : neither muft their meat be too dry ; for 
m fuch a cafe it will make them vent burn, 
and that is as bad as if they had been fcoured : 
when they begin to pick about their meat, and 
feed themfelves, let fc aided rape feed in their 
