CHAPTER V. 



THREATENING INDICATIONS. 



Another meeting -was now called at the Statehouse, 

 which was even more fully attended than the first, and at 

 which much more serious indications of enthusiasm were 

 apparent. 



Old men, and middle-aged farmers, and florists, and agri- 

 culturists, and live-stock breeders, from all parts of this and 

 -the neighboring states, congregated together on this event- 

 ful occasion, and entered into the debate with an earnestness 

 worthy of so important and " glorious " a cause. 



Some of the speakers had by this time got to be so elated 

 and so ardent that they rehearsed all they knew, and some 

 of them told of a great deal more than themselves or any- 

 body else had ever dreamed of, bearing upon the subject of 

 poultry-raising. But, really, the subject was an exciting 

 one, and the talkers were excusable ; they could n't help it ! 



Shades of morus multicaulis victims ! Shadows of 

 defunct tulip-growers ! Spirits of departed Merino sheep 

 Bpeculators ! Ghosts of dead Berkshire pig fanciers 1 



