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The public judgment, however, in such a case, is not likely 

 to be wrong ; and, if it were, God, who knows all, will do 

 right. 



So far from your ever having injured me, my dear sir, 

 I have had pleasant and most favorable impressions of you. 

 * * * I would sooner cut off my hand than do you an 

 ihtentional injury, and I will gladly put forth both hands 

 to render you any service. And yet I do wish you had not 

 written this volume ; or else, that, having written it, you 

 will, in a future edition, give it a tone more strictly con- 

 demnatory of all deception in " fancy " trading. 

 I am, very sincerely, your friend, 



F. D. Huntington. 



Mr. Huntington is pleased to class the " History of 

 the Hen Fever" with Barnum's book, but pronounces it 

 weaker and more vapid than that work. The Philadel- 

 phia Merchant a candid and highly-respectable journal, 

 insists that, " if there is one book in the world that can 

 claim superiority over all others in the quality of fun, real 

 genuine richness of wit, then that one book is decidedly 

 Burnham's i History of the Hen Fever. This contagion, 

 and others of similar type, is most provokirigly, though 

 truthfully, exhibited in this work, which will have a tend- 

 ency to subdue the fever, and lead to ■ a convalescence of 

 some of the patients." 



The New York Mirror declares that "none other of 

 the manias 6f this century has been so fully, or at least so 



