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me (from some cause) did not hatch. I have kept a hen 

 (a very good sitter, too) upon that first lot, constantly, for 

 four -weeks, now — and I don't believe I shall get a chick, 

 you see ! So, please forward these now, right away — 

 because my hen will get tired of waiting, you know, if I 

 don't keep her right along, steady. The $10 you will 

 find within. Yours, resp'y. 



P. S. Can you inform me what is good for lice on fowls ? 

 I find that my hen is covered with a million of them, now. 

 Don't forget this, please.* 



No. 6. 



Sdr — wen i cum to boston nex weak i want to see yure 

 poltry i am a ole hand at the bizness myself an I like to 

 see good kinds of poltry every ware, i see yurn in the 

 paper an i like them verry much can yu sel a hen without a 

 cock, i have sevral cocks now of the black dawkin pure 

 bred and fine an i would change one of them with yu for a 

 cochon chiner hen if yu say so. answer by fust male. 



Yure in haist 



Mr. P. G. Barnum, 



boston. 



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* After a hen had set over four weeks on her nest, I should suppose sha 

 might have been thus affected ! 



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