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thereof, so that in the words of the immortal Shakspeare, by the 

 mouth of Macbeth to Banquo, they might say, 



" So fair and foul (fowl) a "show" we have not seen." 



Having made their tour of inspection along the whole line of 

 coops, penetrating, with no little difficulty, the dense mass "which 

 thronged around admiring the Committee, (N. B. The comma 

 after " committee" should be after " admiring" !!) unanimously 

 agreed to recommend that there be awarded 



To S. Southwick, of Danvers, four dollars, for his seven well 

 prepared coops of excellent Fowls, containing specimens "in good 

 order and well conditioned," of Brama Pootras, Red Shanghaes, 

 Black Spanish, and Black Bantams, White Poland Ducks, and 

 China Ducks, all in first rate keeping, and fully justifying the wish 

 of the Committee, that they could be present, with sharp teeth and 

 sharper appetite, and, hearing what Byron calls, 



"the all-soft'ning, overpowering knell, 

 The tocsin of the soul — the dinner-hell," 



sit down, at the "festive board" with 



" clang of plates, of knife and fork. 

 And merciless fall, like tomahawk, to work," — Peter Pindar. 



on just such samples, " done brown on both sides " — claws upper- 

 most, and belhes all dilate with a spicy compound of bread and 

 sweet marjoram. Your Committee, believing themselves fully ade- 

 quate to such an occasion, would do the feast as ample justice, 

 as did the Trojans in Italy, when their ravenous appetite carried 

 them to such an extreme, that their youthful leader, Ascanius, ex- 

 claimed, — 



"Heus, etiammensas consumimus." — Virgil. 



which one of your Committee, an old pedagogue, interprets to mean, 



" Hallo ! my lads, your appetites so rare. 



Bolt meats and bread, nor e'en the tables spare." 



To A. L. Pierson, of Danvers, one dollar and fifty cents, for 

 splendid specimens of White Dorkings and Grey Shanghaes. The 

 White Dorkings were beautiful birds, and well sustained the repu- 

 tation of Mr. P., as a very successful breeder of that excellent kind 

 of fowl. 



To I. 0. Loring, three dollars, Otis Bailey, two dollars, and J. 

 Armitage, one dollar, (all of Andover,) for specimens of Bolton 



