THE FOWL-HOUSE.In building a fowl-house, take care that it be, if possible, built against a wall or fence that faces the south, and thus insure its inmates against many cold winds, driving rains, and sleets they will otherwise suffer.

BARBER, DAVID S. Wild fowl decoys.

He will climb over a six-foot wire fence to gain entrance to a fowl-run belonging to an excellent sportsman, who, though not a hunting man, would never allow a fox to be killed.

THE POLAND.This bird, a native of Holland, is a great favourite with fowl-keepers, especially those who have on eye to profit rather than to amusement.

Upon the middle of the night Waking she heard the night-fowl crow; The cock sang out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seemed to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.

And so, with a rattling burst after a jackal or fox, he gets back to his bungalow to bathe, dress, and break his fast with fowl cutlets, and curry and rice, washed down with a wholesome tumbler of Bass.

This house should be built large enough for the number of pea fowl to be kept and should be equipped with separate roosting places smoothly stuccoed, so that snakes and such vermin may not be able to get into it: and, furthermore, it should have attached to it a run in which the pea fowl may feed on sunny days, and both these places should be kept clean, as this kind of fowl demands.

At frequent intervals the steely blue of some lovely lake, where thousands of water-fowl disport themselves, reflects from its polished surface the sheen of the noonday sun.

Guinea-fowl eggs are smaller and more delicate than those of the hen.

The chikor, however, is certainly far superior in the capacity of what fowl fanciers call "a table bird," being, in fact, truly excellent eating.

In these the birds sleep during the day; and as soon as evening sets in, the decoy rises, and the wild fowl feed during the night.

Then the chickens were angry that one of their kind Should try to be a peacock; And the peacocks were mad that one with their tail Should belong to a common fowl flock.

"His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.

Of all proud birds the eagle pleaseth Jove, Of pretty fowls kind Venus likes the dove, Of trees Minerva doth the olive move. LODGE.

FAROE ISLANDS (13), a group of 22 islands of basaltic formation, about 200 m. NW. of the Shetlands; originally Norwegian, they now belong to Denmark; agriculture is limited, and fishing and sheep-farming chiefly engage the natives; there is an export trade in wool, fish, and wild-fowl leathers.

Indeed, the fowl seems to take to tropical America as the horse has to Australia, as to a second native-land; and Trinidad alone might send an endless supply to the fowl-market of the Northern States, even if that should not be quite true which some one said, that you might turn an old cock loose in the bush, and he, without further help, would lay more eggs, and bring up more chickens, than you could either eat or sell.

where the wandering moor-fowl nest; And up where the wet grey glidders[10] shine

And the Jackdaw, fowl provoking, still is croaking, still is croaking, On the pallid bust of GLADSTONE just above my study door, And his eyes have all the seeming of a small attorney scheming; And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And the shape cut by that shadow which lies floating on the floor, Looks (to me) OBSTRUCTIVE BORE!

To the gloomy recesses of these natural caverns, millions of sea-fowl resort during the breeding season; and it was among the feathered tribes then congregated in the "Puffin Cave," that Frank meant, on that evening, to deal death and destruction.

The annual happiness of how many thousands at the return of Thanksgiving Daythe unfed woes of how many thousands moredoes this estimable fowl revolve within his urbane crop!

The trees were bending and cracking around us, and the air was completely filled with the wild-fowl screaming and quacking as they made their way southward before the blast.

And after all, what have you made by your butter-making, pig-killing, and fowl-slaughtering?"

He eat a bit of hashed guinea-fowl in the day, which he had not done before since his illness, deriving his sole sustenance from a little fowl-soup and milk and water.

In a case of fowl-stealing which I was trying, there was a curious defence raised, which seemed too ridiculous to notice.

Does not the hawk all fowls survey, As destined only for his prey?