THE POULTRY- YARD, 



Jftbntarg. 



MAY be those 

 who will argue 

 that you might 

 as well call our Aryan 

 brother himself a frontier tribe 

 as the domestic moorgee ; but I do not see 

 the 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 



