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aiders. Orders for this strain of pure blood poured in upon 

 me, and I supplied them. I trust the purchasers were 

 always satisfied. In my case, it might answer; but I 

 would not recommend the practice generally of purchasing 

 chickens out of the newspapers. Such a portrait as the 

 above might chance to be a little fanciful ;■ or, perhaps, it 

 might be a trifling exaggeration, you see. Yet this was 

 the breed that were always "put in the newspapers^" 

 You very rarely found them in your coops, though ! 



