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cage to wean them from the bread and mu,c 
as foon as poffible s becanfe fometttnes feeding 
,00 long upon foft food will make them rot- 
ten. It will be a month or fix weeks before 
they will be able to crack their ieeds, ana live 
entirely upon hard meat. 
There are other forts of food made ufe of in 
bringing up voting Linnets, but this has been 
proved to anlvver as well as any. 
When they are fully grown up, feed them 
with rap and Canary- feeds, three fourths rape, 
and one fourth Canary, it being the beft food 
you can feed them with •, you may give them a 
little hemp-feed at a time, but not too much, 
it being too fattening, and makes them dull 
and heavy; whereas a little now and then non* 
rilhes, and makes them chearful. 
If you intend to learn them to whiffle, let it 
be done when you feed them; for they will 
learn very much before they can crack hard 
feeds: or hang them under any bird you have 
a-mind they lhculd leant his fong; for thefe 
birds, when young, are exceeding apt for any 
fong or tune; or they maybe ever taught to 
f peak ; for there is nothing fo hard but labour 
and diligence will overcome. 
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