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repaid him for their generous diet. One year he 

 raised over three hundred. 

 Dr. Summers writes: 



" Of course the Doctor went into the rage for 

 Shanghai Fowls, when they came to the 'fore.' He 

 showed me one day, a hen which laid one hundred 

 and twelve eggs in one hundred and sixteen days. 

 She did not keep many Sabbaths ! Of course she 

 was a great pet. 



The Doctor came to our office on one occasion in 

 a pleasant mood, and said : 'Summers, I'm going to 

 Synod, and I will give you a Shanghai cock and 

 two hens of my fine breed, if you will preach for me 

 in my absence, and Wightman, (afterwards Bishop 

 Methodist Church), I shall make the same bargain 

 with you.' We both agreed. I remarked that I must 

 have the fowls in advance ! The fowls came fine, 

 fat fellows, and the sermons were preached." 



His fine ducks, Shanghai fowls, etc., he frequently 

 distributed among his friends. 



FROM HIS SON-IN-LAW, MR. HASKELL. 



" I thank you very much for your present of fine 

 Shanghais ; 1 cannot get Harriet to send you the five 

 fat hens promised ; but you shall have them, if I 

 have to steal them from her. Come up to Oakland, I 

 am keeping all the deer for you. Three were started 

 yesterday, but none killed." 



From his Daughter Harriet : 



My dear Father : Don't believe a word Mr. H. 

 says about the hens. I am so anxious to get them 

 to you, that it was as much as he could do to pre- 

 vent my sending them to you by Ben on horse- 



