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known one to lay what are called double Eggs. The comb is 

 generally single, though I have, in some* specimens, seen a 

 slight tendency to rose. I have never seen one with a top- 

 knot. 



The flesh of this Fowl is tender and juicy, unexceptionable 

 in every respect in fact, a dish fit for an Emperor. In view, 

 then, of the goodly size of the Shanghae, weighing, as the 

 males do at maturity, from ten to twelve pounds, and the fe- 

 male from seven and a half to eight and a half pounds, and 

 Stags and Pullets of six months respectively eight and six 

 pounds, in view also of the economical uses to which its soft 

 downy feathers may be applied, also its productiveness, har- 

 diness, and, lastly, its quiet and docile temper, in view of 

 these things, I am well pleased with pure Shanghaes. I know 

 not a better Fowl. In truth, I might say of it, as the pious 

 Isaac Walton was wont to say of the trout, his favorite fish 

 " Grod might have made a better fish, but he did not " so of 

 the pure unadulterated Shanghae. 



