I was about three months hedging in the first piece; and, till I had done it, I tethered the three kids in the best part of it, and used them to feed as near me as possible, to make them familiar; and very often I would go and carry them some ears of barley, or a handful of rice, and feed them out of my hand; so that after my enclosure was finished and I let them loose, they would follow me up and down, bleating after me for a handful of corn.
Spessissimo io nudrivali con le mie proprie mani portando loro o spighe d’orzo o pugni di riso. Quando poi fu terminato il mio parco chiuso, e li lasciai camminar liberi entro di esso, mi seguivano qua e là belandomi dietro per farsi dare un poco di grano.