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affection, and was willing to confess that he was not a believer 

 in the doctrine. For his own part he never felt the least at- 

 tachment to his own mother. [Here the speaker was inter- 

 rupted by hisses and cries of "shame," " turn him out," and 

 great confusion ensued. The Roost called upon all the Game 

 Cocks of the assembly to act as special constables and preserve 

 order.] After order had been restored, Mr. Drake proceeded. 

 He said he was not afraid to repeat the same obnoxious ex- 

 pression, which had caused such commotion in the convention. 

 He said he had none of those filial feelings described by 

 others, and he supposed the reason was, that he was a foundling 

 — the orphan child of an egg-hatching machine — and how 

 could it be possible to have natural affection towards a thing 

 of wood and iron, warmed by a steam-boiler and regulated by 

 thermometer ? [Intense sensation.] 



Mr. Chittagong said the question now appeared in a new 

 aspect and assumed an importance he had not supposed belong- 

 ed to it. He moved that this and all other subjects before the 

 Convention, be referred to a Committee of one from each 

 tribe, to sit in the recess, and that this committee have power 

 to send for — eggs and chickens. 



This proposition was unanimously adopted, and the Con- 

 vention adjourned without day. 



FITCH POOLE, Chairman. 



SHEEP. 



The Committee on Sheep, (being all present except Mr. 

 Kent, and his place being supplied by S. H. Greene, of Ips- 

 wich,) proceeded to examine the only specimens offered. 

 These were but two, and were owned by Doctor Joseph Kit- 

 tredge and Jacob Farnum, both of Andover. The lot of Dr. 

 Kittredge consisted of four pure blood South Downs, and 

 three others of a large variety of long woolled Sheep. They 

 were all young, and were a part of a flock of twenty. 



A noble animal of the Leicester breed, was noticed in the 

 pen, by one of the Committee, after the official examination. 



