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Greys. These were magnificent birds, such as cannot be surpassed 

 hj any of the variety, for clearness, perfection and beauty of 

 plumage, and excellence of flesh and health. 



To H. F. Clark, of Methuen, for his Muscovy and Russian Ducks, 

 and very excellent birds they were, in fine flesh and health, fit for 

 the table of the Czar himself, or for any of his host of 



" Whisker'd pandoors and his fierce Iiussars," — Campbell. 



who are just now fighting Johnny Bull and Johnny Crapau, about 

 Sebastopol. 



To S. H. Brocklebank, of Georgetown, one dollar, for his Black 

 Bantams and Golden Pheasants, fine birds. 



To Charles Barker, of Andover, seventy-five cents, for his half- 

 breed Wild Geese. These were as splendid birds as ever 



" gabbled o'er the pool, 

 When noisy children are let loose from school." ' 



— Goldsmith transposed I 



And besides^'that, were beautiful and toucliing illustrations of the 

 omnipotent tyranny of love over the wildest wanderers of wild- 

 goosedom — 



" Quis enim modus adsit amori V — Virgil. 



" What limit to the power of love ?" Shakspeare says, 



" It may transform a man into an oyster." 



What man or gander can oppose a breast, adamantine enough to 

 stop a single bolt from Cupid's bow ? Your Committee, in their 

 day, have had experience of some pretty tough samples of goose- 

 breast, but none, whose 



" tough, impracticable heart, 

 Was proof against great Cupid's heart." — Old Poem ! ? 



These birds too, proved conclusively, that Tom Moore had more 

 poetry than truth in his noddle, when he sang, 



" The bird let loose in Eastern skies. 



When hastening fondly home. 

 Ne'er stoops to earth his wing, nor flies 



Where idle warblers roam." 



Since here, " visible to the naked eye," was a slap-in-the-mouth 

 contradiction thereof, for 



" from his aerial career, 

 A monarch of goosedom, stern, long-neckcd and high." — iStreet varied I 

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