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boiled potatoes. They had also a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in 

 their pen. The eight were killed on the same day, and there was a differ- 



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ence of one and a half pounds each in favor of the fowls which had been 

 supplied with the charcoal, they being much the fattest, and the meat 

 greatly superior in point of tenderness and flavor." 



