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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 feen 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 buthes, and ftay - 
there fo long as their parent continues the cry. 
When. the young are firft hatched, their heads 
are 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. tinder, in time 
: they become hardy, and can bear the feverett 
cold, perched on trees, or on the ait of houtes, 
inthe midft of winter, 
_. When they rooft in trees, they ¢ get as s hiahs 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 diflike that co- 
lour, that it drives them (sarnes as a whip would 
drive a Horfe. Be : 
In ‘America, Turkeys are tad to weigh from. 
thirty to forty pounds, in England it is uncom-” 
‘mon for them to weigh twenty-five pounds, ae 
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