If only I could have gone out into the gardens, as is my wont, I should have been content enough; but to be cooped in this silent house, with no companion, save a mad woman and a sick dog, was enough to prey upon the nerves of the hardiest.

" "Lady T. Yes, my lord, when tame doves live cooped within the pen of your precepts, I do think 'em prodigious indeed! "Lord T. And when they fly wild about this town, madam, pray what must the world think of 'em then?

" COOPING AND FEEDING DUCKLINGS.Brood ducks should be cooped at some distance from any other.

In the latter case, let them be closely cooped for a few days, and bean-meal or oatmeal be mixed with their ordinary food.

But let that passe, when went your harebrainde sonne, That Cuckow, vertue-singing, hatefull byrde, To guarde the safetie of his better part, Which he hath pend within the childish coope Of young Pertillos sweete securitie? Sost.

Great care must be taken with the young chickens at night; the hen should be securely cooped with them: for want of this precaution we in one night lost eight, when they were a few days old, being, as we supposed, carried off by the cats.