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with the fame courage. She difcovers birds of 
prey when they are at a great diftance, and be- 
fore they can be f2en by our eyes; immediately 
as fhe perceives them, fhe makes a noife, which 
difcovers her fears, and alarms the young ones,—= 
inftantly they take fhelter under bufhes, and ftay 
there fo long as their parent continues the cry. 
When the young are firft hatched, their heads 
gre covered with a kind of down, but not with 
the fpongy fkin; as foon as this appears, they 
become very ill, as children do when they cut 
- their teeth. 
Though at firft they are very tender, in time 
they become hardy, and can bear the fevereft 
cold, perched on trees, or on the tops of houfes, 
in the midft of winter. 
_ When they rooft in trees, they get.as high as 
they wifh, by rifing from bough to bough, 
Great numbers are bred every year in Norfolk. 
and Suffolk, and driven to London in autumn. 
_ They are eafily managed by a piece of red rag 
tied to a ftick. They fo much diffike that co- 
lour, that it drives them forwards as a whip would 
drive a Horfe. 
In America, Turkeys are faid to weigh from 
thirty to fortyspounds, in England it is uncom- _ 
mon for them to weigh twenty-five pounds. 
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