GIANTS AND DWARFS 93 



Mr. Wright in CasselVs Poultry Book, which 

 weighed just over eighteen pounds a great 

 contrast to a tiny bantam, which weighs less 

 than a pound and a half. 



But with fowls, as with wild birds, we often 

 find the small ones have the most spirit; 

 many of my readers have no doubt seen a big 

 lumbering rooster forced to run by a lively, 

 spiteful little bantam ; in fact, a bantam I 

 once knew wrenched off his only spur he 

 had lost the other in a previous fight in 

 beating a cock bigger than himself. 



It seems, on the whole, that the little birds 

 have just as good a time as the big ones ; they 

 have more enemies, as a rule, but they can 

 dodge them more easily, and they have not 

 the same difficulty in finding enough to eat. 

 If they do not live so long, their lives are 

 most likely more merry than those of the big 

 birds. 



