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your Corn or thick high Grass Meadows, and haveusually three or sour in a Nest, to my knowledg, Inever found five in all my life-time ; they may betaken at a fortnight old, and Will be broughc up al-most with any Meat z but if you give them at firstSheeps-Heart and Egg chopped together, till theyare about three weeks old, or till they come to feedthemselves it will not be amiss; and when theycome to eat alone, give them Oat-Meal, Hemp-Seed, and Bread, mixed together with a little Egg,bruise the Hemp-Seed, and they will eat the better :at first, Be sure to chuse Hemp-Seed that hath agood Kernel and sweet, otherwise you will but de-ceive your self and the Bird too : These Birds thatare so young, may be brought up to any thing, asI shall shew you when I come to treat, one Birdlearning another Birds Song; you must always ob-serve to give these Birds Sand at the bottom of theCage, and let them have a new Turfs every week;these Larks must have no searches in their Cagesas the Wood-Larks had, for these are Field-Larks.

How to order a Wood-Lark^ when taken.

I N the first place you must have a Cage with twoPans, one for mix’d Meat, and another for Oat-Meal and whole Hemp-Seed. First, Boyl an Egghard, then take the Crum of a half-penny White-Loaf, and as much Hemp-Seed as the Bread ; chopyour Egg very small, and crumble your Bread audit together; then bruise your Hemp Seed very smallwith a Rolling-Pin, or pound it in a Morter ; thenmingle all together and give it him. You musthave fine red Gravel at the bottom of your Cage,

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