AND

DOMESTIC POULTRY:

THEIR

HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT.

BY

THE REV. EDMUND SAUL DIXON, M.A.

RECTOR OF INTWOOD-WITH-KESWICK.

AT THE OFFICE OF THE "GARDENERS' CHRONICLE,”
5, UPPER WELLINGTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

LONDON.

MDCCCXLVIII.

ΤΟ

THE MEMORY OF THE FAITHFUL WIFE,

DURING WHOSE BRIEF COMPANIONSHIP ON EARTH

THESE ESSAYS WERE COMMENCED;

THEY ARE NOW, IN THEIR AMENDED FORM, WITH DEEP SORROW

INSCRIBED, BY

THE AUTHOR.

EPOPS.-"Epopoi! popopoi! popoi! popoi!
Flock hither, flock hither, flock hither,
Hilloah! Hilloah!

All ye of like feather,
Wherever ye be,

Whether barley ye gather,

Or seed on the lea;

With a skip and a bound,

And a song of sweet sound,

Flock ye hither to me.

Ye that twitter the clod around,

Tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio,

Or in ivy-bush dwell

'Mid gardens; in mountain or dell ;

Who dip the beak, or who brush the wing,

In reedy pool, or in plashy spring;

On berries of wilding-olive feed,

Or strip off the arbute's scarlet seed,
Come along, come along

To the voice of my song,
Trioto, trioto, trioto, tobrinx;
Or on wide fenny flats,

Flitting after the gnats,

When they're twanging their horn,

Snap them up; or at morn,
Where the dew lies, are seen
Glancing over the green
Of sweet Marathon's mead;
And with pinion so bright,
Hazel-hen, hazel-hen:

Or whose tribes take a flight
On the tumbling sea-billow,
Where the king-fishers pillow,
Come hither and hear,
What news we have here;

For all our tribes are gathering,
Fowls of every plume and wing:
And there is amongst us brought
An elder shrewd of subtle thought,
That plans new counsels for our state,
Come all, and aid the deep debate:
Hither, hither, hither."

Cary's Birds of Aristophanes, Act I.