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DOMESTIC FOWL. 
The tame duck, that is, the common one, appears in the same livery as 
the wild one, but is a larger bird, while some vary greatly from them and 
from each other. Tame ducks are reared more easily than any other domestic 
fowl, and the best way to get them is to place duck’s eggs under a hen, for 
the tame duck is a careless mother. The hen, on the contrary—who is an 
indefatigable nurse—generally hatches a duckling from every egg with 
which she is intrusted; she does not indeed conduct her young to the 
yater, and generally exhibits much anxiety when the young brood take to 
it, but she watches over them, and is ever ready to defend them from 
danger. 
