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faults in the other bird that make you glad you don’t 
possess him. 
But ll tell you what you can do, and it’s what I 
always do. Whatever the scores for the individual 
tours, I see that it is my best bird that comes out on top. 
Here the “ general effect” column comes in, and I am 
very glad to see many judges making a larger use of 
that column than has ever been made before. 
But what would be the use of all these efforts on the 
part of a judge to weigh up everything for and against 
a bird, those good points which are not catalogued as 
such, and those faults which are unnamed, if he had to 
put down into the cards his best bird because he had a 
penalty mark against him? It would, in my opinion, 
be the end of all good judging, and, in time, might well 
make for the end of all good birds. 
