CHAPTER X. 



THE MTTTXJAL A )MIKATION SOCIETT'S SECOND SHOW. 



In the month following, to wit, on the 12th, 13th and 

 14th of November, 1850, the second annual exhibition of 

 the Simon Pure Society with the extended title was held 

 at the Public Garden, in Boston. 



No premiums were offered by the society this year, and 

 there was n't much to labor for. I was a contributor, and I 

 believe I waa elected a member of the Committee of Judges 

 that year. How, I did not know. At any rate, I wrote 

 the published Rqaort upon the exhibition. A Mr. Sanford 

 Howard was chairman of this committee, if I remember 

 rightly; and though undoubtedly a very respectable and 

 well-meaning man (if he had not been so, he would n't have 

 been placed on a Committee of Judges -with me, I imagine), 

 this Mr. Howard knew positively nothing whatever in 

 regard to the merits or faults of poultry generally. He 

 had acquired some vague notions about what he was pleased 

 to term "crested" fowls, and five- toed, white-legged, white- 

 plumed, white-billed, white-bellied Dorkings, — of which 



