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Pootrums, and tell me that their ideas of improvement go 

 entirely contrary to the propriety of tolerating my noble 

 breed of fowls. Disgustibus non disputandum, as Shaks- 

 peare, or somebody for him, emphatically says, — which 

 means, ' Every one to his taste, as the old lady said when 

 she kissed the cow.' One thing it will not be hard to 

 prove, I think ; that is, simply the probability of some- 

 thing like envy operating among the members of the Hen 

 Society, on account of the exclusive attention paid my 

 Bother' ems at the late Fowl Fairs in Boston," — where the 

 'squire's contributions did rather " astonish the boys " who 

 were not thoroughly acquainted with the excellent qualities 

 of these birds. Verily, Snooks' " Bother' ems " did bother 

 'em exceedingly ! 

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