and
driven by hundreds to the London market by means of a shred of scarlet
cloth fastened to the end of a pole, which from their antipathy to this
colour serves as a whip. Turkies being extremely delicate fowls, are
soon injured by the cold: hence it is necessary, soon after they are
hatched, to force them to swallow one whole peppercorn each, and then
restore them to the parent bird. They are also liable to a peculiar
disorder, which often proves fatal in a little time. On inspecting the
rump feathers, two or three of their quills will be found to contain
blood; but on drawing them out, the chickens soon recover, and
afterwards require no other care than common poultry. Young turkies
should be fed with crumbs of bread and milk, eggs boiled hard and
chopped, or with common dock leaves cut fine, and mixed with fresh
butter-milk. They also require to be kept in the sunshine or a warm
place, and guarded from the rain, or from running among the nettles.
They are very fond of the common garden peppercress, or cut-leaved
cress, and should be supplied with as much of it as they will eat, or
allowed to pick it off the bed. In Norfolk they are fed with curds and
chopped onions, also with buck wheat, and are literally crammed with
boluses of barley meal till their crops are full, which perhaps may
account for the superior excellence of the turkies in that part of the
kingdom.

POUNCE. This article, used in writing, is made of gum sandaric, powdered
and sifted very fine; or an equal quantity of rosin, burnt alum, and
cuttle fishbone well dried, and mixed together. This last is of a
superior quality.

POUND CAKE. Beat a pound of butter to a cream, and mix with it the
whites and yolks of eight eggs beaten apart. Have ready warm by the
fire, a pound of flour, and the same of sifted sugar. Mix them and a few
cloves, a little nutmeg and cinnamon, in fine powder together; then by
degrees work the dry ingredients into the butter and eggs. It must be
well beaten for a full hour, adding a glass of wine, and some carraway
seeds. Butter a pan, and bake it a full hour in a quick oven. The above
proportions, leaving out four ounces of the butter, and the same of
sugar, make a less luscious cake, but a very pleasant one.

POUNDED CHEESE. Cut a pound of good mellow cheese into thin slices, add
to it two or three ounces of fresh butter, rub them well together in a
mortar till quite smooth. When cheese is dry, and for those whose
digesti