CHAPTER XIII. 



THE OTHBK SIDE OF THE QUESTION. 



The foregoing are only a very few samples of hundreds 

 upon hundreds of similar letters I constantly received, for 

 nearly five years. 



All the blame occasioned by careless express-men, of 

 false blood imposed upon me originally, of tardy hens, of 

 the hatching or non-hatching of eggs transported hundreds 

 of miles, of feathered legs upon chickens, or the absence 

 of them, of every species of mishap that could by any pos- 

 sibility befall the fancier and amateur, through his own 

 ignorance or errors, — every kind of mistake was charged to 

 ?ne ! But, with a Christian meekness, I bore it all. 



I was threatened with civil prosecutions, with the House 

 of Correction, the State Prison, the Penitentiary, and all 

 sorts of other punishments, for my remissness ; but I sub- 

 mitted with a quiet resignatioAj because "the people" were 

 so deeply engaged in this pursuit, and everybody now had 

 the fever &o, shockingly, that I sympathized with all man- 

 kind, aftd. attributed these trifling ebullitions of ill-will, or 

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