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THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 133
large as they could be and not let the hens es
cape through them.
One end of this long crib or house was, for a
little way along, neatly boarded both at the sides
and top, and so contrived as to give the hens at
once a comfortable resting or roosting place, and
a place to deposit their eggs. The chamber for
their nests , was furnished with straw and other
soft materials, such as hens are pleased with for
these purposes.
Two or three times a-day they were fed either
with corn or boiled potatoes, and once a-day
they were watered. For the latter purpose they
had a long wooden trough which Henry had dug
out of a log, somewhat after the manner of the
old-fashioned log-canoes of the Indians, only, of
course, much smaller. The ground formed their