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whom, also, a plated jug -vras subsequently presented; a 

 vote to Mr. Burnham, of Boston, for his speech and his 

 " magnificent " contributions of pwre-bred stock ; a vote 

 condemning everybody who had or should thenceforward 

 nickname fowls ; a vote of condolence and sympathy with 

 John Giles, because none of his pure Black Spanish fowls 

 were in the exhibition ; a vote to Porter, of the New York 

 Spirit of tlie Times, for his disinterested notices of the 

 show ; another to Greeley, of the Tribune, who had n't time 

 to visit it; another to pay the bills of the " Committees " 

 at the Astor House {minus the champagne charges !) ; 

 another to Dr. Bennett, for not being present at this show ; 

 another endorsing the claims of patent pill-venders and 

 cross-grained bee-hive makers; another to Frank Pierce, 

 for the allusions in his inaugural to the " march of prog- 

 ress " in our land, which of course included Shanghae-ism ; 

 another to Caleb Cashing (an honorary member), who was 

 lauded as the most thoroughly graceless humbug known to 

 the "national" society; another endorsing the collector and 

 postmaster of Boston as disinterested democrats; another 

 that my " Grey Shanghaes " were evidently the only full- 

 blooded fowls exhibited at the American Museum on this 

 occasion; and numerous other resolves were duly " voted," 

 of which no note was taken at the time. 



While this bosh was transpiring, I sent to Boston for 

 some fifty pairs more of my " superb " specimens of Shang- 

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