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mittee unanimously awarded the first premiums for fowls 

 and chickens; and finer samples of domestic birds will 

 rarely be found in this country. They are bred from the 

 Queen's variety, obtained by Mr. Burnham last winter, at 

 heavy cost, through J. Joseph Nolan, Esq., of Dublin, and 

 are unquestionably, at this time, the finest thorough-bred 

 Cochin-Chinas in America." 



My early hen-friend the "Doctor" — alluded to in the 

 opening chapter of this book — exhibited a fowl which the 

 " Committee " thus described in their report : 



"The rare and beautiful imported Wild India Game 

 hen, contributed by Mr. B. F. Griggs, Columbus, Geo., was 

 a curiosity much admired. This fowl (lately sold by Dr. 

 J. C. Bennett, of Plymouth, to Mr. Griggs, for fl20) is 

 thorough game, without doubt; and her. progeny, exhibited 

 by Dr. Bennett, were very beautiful specimens. To this 

 bird, and the ' Yankee Games ' of Dr. Bennett, the Com- 

 mittee awarded a gratuity of f 5." 



So miserable a hum as this was, I never met with, in all 

 my long Shangkae experience. It out-bothered the Doc- 

 tor's famous " Bother' ems," and really ovX-Cochined even 

 my noted Gochin-Chinas ! But I was content. I was one 

 of the " Committee of Judges." I had forgot ! 



This Committee's Report was thus closed : 



" It has been the aim of the Committee to do justice to 

 all who have taken an ifiterest in the late Fowl Exhibition, 



