Last Monday week one of the fowls which I had brought from York, Ned Thackray having given me them, was missing and after diligent search was decided it had been "stolen or strayed"; on Monday last one of Mr. Griffin's men had occasion to open an old
sawpit¹² and there found my poor chicken, having been an entire week without food; by care and gentle nourishment we have good hopes of recovering it.

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