92 THE HISTORY OF 



Subsequentlj, these fowls came to be called " Buram- 

 pootras," " Burram Putras," "Brama-pooters," " Brah- 

 mas," "Brama Puters," " Brama Poutras," and at last 

 " Brahma Pootras." In the mean time, they ■were adver- 

 tised to be exhibited at various fairs in different parts of 

 the country under the above changes of title, varied in cer- 

 tain instances as follows : " Burma Porters," " Bahama 

 Paduas," " Bohemia Prudas," " Bahama Pudras." And, 

 for these three last named, prizes were actually offered at a 

 Maryland fair, in 1851 ! 



The following capital sketch (which appeared originally 

 in the Boston Carpet-Bag^ is from the pen of the 

 late Secretary of the Mutual Admiration Society, — a gen- 

 tleman, and a very happy writer in his way. It gives a 

 faithful and accurate description of what many of these 

 monsters really were, and will be read with gusto by all 

 who have now come to be " posted up " in the secrets of the 

 hen-trade. 



The editor of the above-named journal remarks that " as 

 our Cai-pet-Baff contains something connected with every- 

 thing under the sun, we have abstracted therefrom a chap- 

 ter on chicken-craft, which embraces a very important 

 detail of that most abstruse science. When our readers 

 scan the beautiful proportions of the stately fowl that 7'oosts 

 at the head of this article, they will acknowledge that we 

 have some right to cackle because of the good fortune we 



