46 TUB HISTORY OF THE HEN FBVBK. 



months-old chickens, from my " splendid " Royal Cochin- 

 China fowls. 



He had .a tender spot somewhere, that I had hit, during 

 the conversation, I presijme. He took the two chickens 

 into his carriage, and I have never seen or heard from him 

 from that day to this. I trust, however, if "these few 

 lines " should ever meet his eye, that his poultry turned 

 out well, and that he himself is in good health and spirits ! 



I called this gallant young cock " Frank Pierce," in 

 honor of my valiant friend now of the White House, at 

 Washington. It will be seen that I thus sold Frank for 

 fifty dollars ; a sum which the majority of the people of 

 this country have since most emphatically determined was 

 a good deal more than he ever was worth 1 



