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who signed it could otherwise procure for their 

 views. Among the first results were eager dis- 

 claimers from some of those who had signed the 

 compromising circular ; they called or wrote to 

 assert that their names had been attached to it 

 ithout their consent or knowledge ! 



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Tegetmeieb Judging Fowls. 

 (From a Sketch by Albert Bryan.) 



Nor were dishonest exhibitors alone opposed to 

 the " upright judge " at first ; some of the more 

 timid secretaries, fearful of decrease in their 

 entries, were averse from the strictness of his 

 methods. He was often told that he could not 

 be allowed to disqualify in the wholesale fashion 

 he sometimes thought necessary : that exhibitors 

 had been allowed to do these things in the past, 

 and had learned that judges always " winked 



