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I have them skinned to death as far as 

 satisfaction goes. 



I waited for some time for Brownell 

 to say something, but I didn't seem to 

 have anything coming to me. There- 

 fore I sent all the evidence that I had 

 been able to collect to the Post Office 

 Inspectors. They promise to give Mr. 

 Brownell a good run for his eggs, but 

 I firmiy believe that a little judicious 

 advertising won't do him any harm .(!) 

 For myself. I don't feel sore at Mr. 

 Brownell, as I expect to go East next 

 summer. If he is in the vicinity of 

 Floral Park, I firmly expect to settle 

 with him. The machine says that I 

 can punch — well, I can ring the bell 

 dead easy, with either hand. But I 

 am sorr}' for some of the other people 

 who have been peeled for their only re- 

 dress seems to lie in warning their 

 friends." 



"Brownell never even gave the vic- 

 tim the satisfaction of knowing that he 

 had received the eggs. I realize that I 

 am perhaps doing Mr. Browneil an 

 injustice, but my vocabulary is limited 

 and you can't call a man anything 

 that is so very much worse than fraud, 

 he might feel hurt. However, I think 

 that C. L. Brownell has it coming to 

 him, with interest; and it is the sincere 

 hope of your correspondent that all 

 those who are not looking for ex- 

 perience, should avoid him like the 

 man who sells lottery tickets, for it is 

 a stand off between them. One will 

 steal from you, and the other will rob 

 you. Take your pick. 



Yours truly, 

 Charles S. Thompson. 



To the Editor: 



One C. L. Brownell of Floral Park, 

 Nyack and other points in New York 

 who once achieved distinction by being 

 a principal in the famous Brownell 

 divorce case the details of which were 

 so delightfully indecent has broken 

 out in a new place in his thirst for 



further notoriety. He is now a col- 

 lector who intends to "publish a book 

 on eggs." 



He visited me last winter — was 

 suffering from on acute attack of 

 the "grippe" so he said when he came. 

 We took him in, fed him on quinine 

 tablets, toast, eggs, etc., until he had 

 recovered sufficiently to look oVer my 

 duplicates from which he selected a 

 little over |100 worth. He fails to send 

 the eggs he promised in exchange or 

 to return my sets or even to answer 

 my affectionate letters, the latter fact, 

 being a person who likes a good cor- 

 respondence, I regret almost as much 

 as I do the loss of theeggs, the quinine 

 pills, et cetera. 



I understand he is swindling every- 

 body who will send him a set of eggs 

 on "approval." As one friend puts it 

 he is as "crooked as a dog's hind leg" 

 and parties who don't care to part with 

 their specimens as easily as the un- 

 dersigned did should heed this friend- 

 Iv warning. 



A. E. Price. 



A word to the wise is supposed to be 

 sufficient. Lookout for this gent. 

 "No telling" where, he will show up 

 next. 



And there are two or three more pro- 

 spective candidates for honorable (?) 

 mention in these columns. 



We would advise them to patch up 

 the weak spots in their records prompt- 

 ly before the sun of publicity brings 

 them into objectionable prominence. 



-Ed. 



We have had a very cold winter for 

 this climate. Mercury registered 

 twelve below one morning and at other 

 times four befow but in spite of this 

 weather we have had a Mockingbird 

 (Mimus Polyglottus) with us. I have 

 seen him several times in the hedge 

 fences near town and j'esterday morn- 

 ing, zero weather, he was in a neigh- 

 boring yard apparently doing well. 

 C. B. Vaxdercook, 

 Olin, III. 



