 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 sider
...my care, it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or three days old. It became so tame, that it would follow any person who called it,...little village. Yet it would never roost with the tame Turkey, but regularly betook itself at night to the roof of the house, where it remained until dawn.... | |
 | 1836 - 496 sider
...care ; it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or three days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who called it,...where it remained for a considerable part of the day, and returned to the enclosure as night approached. It continued this practice until the following spring,... | |
 | 1837 - 490 sider
...care ; it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or thrce days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who called it,...where it remained for a considerable part of the day, and returned to the enclosure as night approached. ' It continued this practice until the following... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 sider
...my care, it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or three days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who called it, and was the favorite of the little village. Yet it would never roost with the tame turkeys, but regularly betook... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 sider
...three days old. It became « tame that it would follow any person who called it, and was the favorite of the little village. Yet it would never roost with...house, where it remained until dawn. When two years oW, it began to fly to the woods, where it remained for a considerable part of the day, to return to... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 sider
...the little village. Yet it would never roost with the tame turkeys, but regularly betook itself by night to the roof of the house, where it remained...for a considerable part of the day, to return to the inclosure u night approached. It continued this practice until the following spring, when I saw it... | |
 | 1856 - 194 sider
...youth under my care, it having been caught by me when not more than two or three days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who called it, and was the favorite of the little village. Yet it would never roost with the tame turkeys, but regularly betook... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 sider
...uiider my care, it having been caught by me when not more than two or three days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who called it, and was the favorite of the little village. Yet it would never roost with the tame turkeys, but regularly betook... | |
 | William Jardine - 1860 - 416 sider
...which the hen had long persevered upon, and upon which h« kept his place foi a fortnight. — ED. tame, that it would follow any person who called it,...Yet it would never roost with the tame turkeys, but regu larly betook itself, at night, to the roof of the house, where it remained until dawn. When two... | |
 | Lewis Wright - 1885 - 698 sider
...my care, it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or three days old. It became to tame that it would follow any person who called it,...night to the roof of the house, where it remained till dawn. When two years old it began to fly to the woods, where it remained for a considerable part... | |
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I.— 38 had among other wild-birds, a urn. male turkey, which had been reared, from its earliest youth, under my care ; it having been caught by me when probably not more than two or three days old. It became so tame that it would follow any person who... 