CHAPTER II. 



THE "COCHIN-CHINAS." BUBBLE NUMBER ONE. 



A PUBLIC meeting was soon called at the legislative hall 

 of the Statehouse, in Boston, which had the effect of draw- 

 ing together a very goodly company of savans, honest farm- 

 ers, amateurs, poulterers, doctors, lawyers, flats, fanciers 

 and humbvgs of one kind or another. / never attended 

 one of the meetings; and only know, from subsequent 

 public and private "reports," what occurred there. 



On ^\^ first occasion, however, after a great deal of 

 bosh and stuff, from the lips of old men and young men, 

 who possessed not the slightest possible shadow of practical 

 knowledge of the subject proposed to be discussed, it was 

 finally resolved that the name for the (now defunct) associa- 

 tion then and there formed, should be " The New England 

 Society for the Improvement of Domestic Poultry" ! ! ! 

 I Now, the only objection I ever raised to this title was 

 that it was not sufficiently lengthy ! When applied to for 

 my own views on the subject, / recommended that it should 

 be called the "Mutual Admiration Society." But, though I 



