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that sftcli things are done, and we think that the public 

 should be put in their guard." 



Thei 3 is no question about the accuracy of this statejnent. 

 ■The writer saj-s he " knows that such things were done ; " 

 and I feel sure that no man in New York State ever knew 

 the details of this dodge so well as he did. It was a very 

 common thing everywhere, however, among the hucksters. 

 I had no occasion to resort to this plan ; for the game we 

 played was a deeper one, altogether. 



There was a "live Yankee," all the way from Rhode 

 Island, who attended the New York show, who took the 

 boys down there after the following style, as appears from 

 another advertisement, which I recently met with, and 

 which 'feat is thus described by one of the sufferers. In a 

 " card " published soon after that exhibition, this victim of 

 misplaced confidence says, with a show of seeming injured 

 innocence : 



"Justice to the public, as well as myself, demands a 

 slight explanation of a few facts connected with the recent 

 National Poultry Show, in New York City. 



"Mr. C , of Woonsocket, R. I., accompanied me to 



New York for the purpose of attending the fair. On the 

 fourth day of the exhibition it was announced that the 



judges were about to commence their labors. Mr. C , 



seeing that his chance for a premium of ani/ kind on Asiatic 

 fowls was very slim, came to me and requested, nay, even 

 insisted, on grounds of mutual friendship, that I should 

 put my two best hens with a cook of his, for the purpose of 

 taking the first premium. I finally consented, with the ex 



