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eggs, /saw it, at once (I remember), but I hoped I was 

 mistaken. What do you propose to do about this ? Let 

 me know, at once, without fail. In haste, 



No. 22. 



SiK : You may think well of the Cochin-China fowls, — I 

 donH. Those you sent me are long-legged, and there are 

 no feathers on their legs, or-feet, as there ought to be. I 

 know what a Cochin-China fowl is, too well to be deceived 

 in this way. I will keep them. You are a htimbicg. 

 You are welcome to the thirty dollars I paid you. I don't 

 ask you to return it. I don't want it. I can get along 

 very well without it. You need it. Keep it. Much good 

 may it do you ! In haste. 



P. S. Don't you wish you may get another |30 out of 

 me, that way ? 0, yes — I guess you will — ha ! ha ! 



No. 23. 



Mr. Barman. Dear Sir : I see in the Poultry Books 

 that the Cotchin-Ohina fowls lays two eggs every day,* 



• " This gigantic bird," says Richardson, a noted English writer, "is 

 very prolific, frequently laying two, and occasionally three eggs on the 

 same day!" And, in support of this monstrous assertion, he subse- 

 quently refers, as his authority for this statement (which was called in 



