CHAPTER XII. 



MT COKEESPONDBNCE. 



By this time my correspondence with gentlemen in all 

 parts of America and Great Britain had got to be rather 

 extended. I took from the post-office from ten to twenty-five 

 or thirty letters, daily ; and amongst them were some curi- 

 ous samples of orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. 

 I oflfer the annexed specimens — of course without names or 

 dates — merely to show how the young aspirants for feime 

 (in the poultry-trade) felt, about those days ; and, also, to 

 give some idea of the progress of the fever among us, aa 

 time passed by, etc. etc. 



No. 1. 



SiK — Mk. Buenham ; 



■i red in Nu england poultry breeder that yu kep 

 fouls an aigs for sail, i want one duzen aigs if tha doant 

 cum tu tu mutch, ime a poor mann an camt pa a gret 



