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Na. 7. 



Dear Sir : Yours duly received. I did not suppose 

 that the price of the " Cochins " was so high — but I must 

 have a trio of them, at any figure. I enclose you fifty 

 dollars for them, agreeably with *your proposal, relying 

 upon your known good taste in selections, and upon your 

 proverbial reputation as regards the keeping only of ptire 

 stock. Send them by Adams & Co.'s Express, in a roomy 

 cage. If they are prime, my neighbors will very shortly 

 order from you, I am sure. ♦ 



Yours, resp'y. 



No. 8. 

 Mb. Barnam : 



Them two fowls I bought of you, by seeing the pictur 

 in the newspaper, and which I paid you f 35 cash down 

 on the nail for, aint what they 're cracked up to be — 

 not by a long short, sir. Now, what I want you to do is 

 to sen me back my munney, or I '11 prosecute you and put 

 you in prizon for cheating people by false pertences. I was 

 so mad when I took them out of the box that I 'd a good 

 mine to kill an eat em both on the spot* I aint no hen- 

 man, I 'd have you to understan, an you can't come none 

 of this kine of nonsense over me. Sen me back my mun- 

 ney, or I '11 complain of you in tu days before a Justis of 



* 0, the cannibal ! %t 



