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THE POULTRY- YARD, 



Jtbritarg. 



be 



1 



VI 



argue 



that you might 

 as well call our Aryan 

 brother himself a frontier tribe 

 the domestic moorgce ; but I do not see 

 parallel. I regard the moorgee as an 

 aborigine. If you were talking of cum- 

 brous brahmas, or shapely Dorkings, or 

 other artificial productions, the argument might 

 stand ; but what have these to do with that little game 

 bird on which Europeans in the district mainly subsist a 

 small brown creature with a very large tail which catches 



