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until you can get the farmers of Connecticut, until you can get 

 the farmers in the General Assembly that is to meet next month 

 to fight for a law that shall take care of the dogs, as they do 

 in some States. If you can get the farmers in the General 

 Assembly to stand up for a law that will take care of the dogs, 

 that will settle the question. But so long as three-fourths of 

 them will vote right against their own interests on such a 

 matter as this, thefe is nothing that can be done in Connecticut. 

 The very last time there was a bill brought up, our president 

 said if you can get the dog fanciers and the sheep breeders to 

 agree, we can get it through, but there was no use in talking 

 about that. And yet it was a bill that ought to have been 

 passed. There was no objection to it from anybody, because 

 it was so simple and square and honest a bill that nobody could 

 do anything against it, but when it came up to the farmers of 

 the General Assembly they fought it as squarely as they ever 

 fought anything on earth. The farmer loves his dog. You 

 can do what you please, and you can say what you please, but 

 until you can get the farmers of Connecticut to allow the men 

 that keep sheep the same privileges that they allow those who 

 keep dogs, it is absolutely useless to talk. 



Good mutton we can raise in Connecticut. There is no 

 question about it. We can raise the best in the world in Con- 

 necticut. I was up at Mr, Gold's, some years ago, and he 

 asked me to dinner. He said to me, " Will you have a little of 

 the mutton, Mr. Hinman ? " I said, " Why, yes ; I am fond 

 of mutton myself." After I had got rid of the first piece he 

 said, " Will you have a little more? " And I said, " Mr. Gold, 

 it seems to me you make a mistake in calling that mutton. It 

 seems to me you should have asked me if I will have a little 

 more lamb. That tastes more like lamb to me than mutton. 

 When it comes on winter, then, if you ask me if I will have a 

 little more mutton, I should think that was appropriate." He 

 turned around, and he said, " Charles, how old was that old 

 ewe? " The fact was it was an old Southdown, which had been 



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