it is to be put into a barrel, and left for a
fortnight to work, when a ninth part of brandy is to be added, and the
whole bunged down. In a few months it will be a most excellent wine.

FATTING FOWLS. Chickens or fowls may be fatted in four or five days, by
setting some rice over the fire with skimmed milk, as much as will serve
for one day. Let it boil till the rice is quite swelled, and add a
tea-spoonful of sugar. Feed them three times a day, in common pans,
giving them only as much as will quite fill them at once. Before they
are fed again, set the pans in water, that no sourness may be conveyed
to the fowls, as that would prevent their fattening. Let them drink
clean water, or the milk of the rice; but when rice is given them, after
being perfectly soaked, let as much of the moisture as possible be drawn
from it. By this method the flesh will have a clean whiteness, which no
other food gives; and when it is considered how far a pound of rice will
go, and how much time is saved by this mode, it will be found nearly as
cheap as any other food, especially if it is to be purchased. The
chicken pen should be cleaned every day, and no food given for sixteen
hours before poultry is to be killed.

FAWN. A fawn, like a sucking pig, should be dressed almost as soon as it
is killed. When very young, it is trussed, stuffed, and spitted the same
as a hare. But they are better eating when of the size of a house lamb,
and then roasted in quarters: the hind quarter is most esteemed. The
meat must be put down to a very quick fire, and either basted all the
time it is roasting, or be covered with sheets of fat bacon. When done,
baste it with butter, and dredge it with a little salt and flour, till a
nice froth is set upon it. Serve it up with venison sauce. If a fawn be
half roasted as soon as received, and afterwards made into a hash, it
will be very fine.

FEAR. Sudden fear, or an unexpected fright, often produces epileptic
fits, and other dangerous disorders. Many young people have lost their
lives or their senses by the foolish attempts of producing violent
alarm, and the mind has been thrown into such disorders as never again
to act with regularity. A settled dread and anxiety not only dispose the
body to diseases, but often render those diseases fatal, which a
cheerful mind would overcome; and the constant dread of some future
evil, has been known to bring on the very evil itself. A mild and
sympathizing behaviour to