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ality of Cochins. The color is creamy -white, slightly 

 splashed -with light straw-color, with the exception of the 

 tail, which is black, and the hackles, which are pencilled 

 with black. The egg is the same color and form as that of 

 the Cochins hitherto naturalized in this country. These 

 fowls are very good layers, and have been supplying the 

 royal table since their reception at the poultry-house, at 

 Windsor." 



All this "helped the cause along" amazingly. It 

 proved a most excellent mode of advertising my " superb," 

 "magnificent," "splendid," "unsurpassable," "inap- 

 proachable" Gkey Shanghaes. • 



The above articles found their way (somehow or other) 

 into the papers of this country immediately ; and, within 

 sixty days afterwards, the price of "Bother' ems" went 

 up from $12 and $15 to $50, $75, $100, and $150, the 

 pair ! ! 



" Cochin-Chinas " were now wowhar ! But / was so as 

 to be about yet. 



