They should be gradually weaned from the soaked bread and chopped egg, instead of which grits or boiled barley should be given; in 8 or 10 days their stomachs will be strong enough to receive bruised barley, and at the end of 3 weeks, if your chicks be healthy, they will be able to take care of themselves.

Food should be given at regular intervalsnot less frequently than five times a day to newly weaned puppiesand may consist of porridge, bread and milk, raw meat minced fine, and any table scraps, with plenty of new milk.

Certain rules and regulations must be adopted to effect weaning safely, the details of which are given elsewhere.[FN#36]

Of this Englishman's son, placed by his mother, scarcely weaned, on a high, cold stone, barefooted, before the anvil; there to harden, sear, and blister his young hands by heating and hammering ragged nailrods, for the sustenance those breasts can no longer supply!

We may safely and properly call upon those who are addicted to snuff or opium taking, tobacco chewing, rum drinking, and other habits which are purely artificial, to break offto wean themselvessuddenly; since they can do so with considerable safety, and will seldom have the courage or the perseverance to do it otherwise.

And the third bed, a cradle, was occupied by Mademoiselle Rose, fifteen months of age and weaned for three weeks past.

He would have liked to stop the car, so remote did the ruined mills seemso like things of long ago that time had mercifully weaned from the stress and struggle of life.