Possibly your bird is troubled with small vermin, which
irritate the skin and induce it to pick at the roots of the feathers.
Examine the skin and plumage. We have given a long recipe for destroying
the vermin in canaries.
TUM YUM.--You had better buy a little bottle of oil-gold and paint your
picture-frame with it. See our article, "Lissom Hands and Pretty Feet."
ERICA RAEBURN.--Your verses are not correctly written, but the
sentiments expressed are good. When you make an adverb of the word
"true" you should drop the final "e."
M. H. M.--Write or see a map-setter, such as Wyld, or any other of
those in or near Trafalgar-square and Charing Cross. The ways and means
of colouring and disposing of your maps will be explained to you by
these people.
PECKHAM RYE.--The poet Wordsworth had an only daughter, Dora, married to
Mr. Quillinan. She was burnt to death in 1847, and left two daughters.
The bishops are nephews of the poet.
PHARMACEUTICAL.--The word "Pharmacon" can be found in all Greek
lexicons. It is probably of Oriental extraction. It originally meant any
medicine taken internally or externally, and apparently its original
signification was good--or, at all events, not bad.
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