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tens of thousands who saw them, while on exhibition, to 

 judge. After selecting two of xay best hens for Mr, 



C 's especial benefit (as it appears), the committee even. 



then saw fit to award me a premium, while his two coops 

 of ' pwe, full-blooded Asiatic fowls,' which he had cracked 

 up so loud and extensively, did not receive, as I can learn, 

 even a passing notice, except the old cock, which was put 

 in the coop with my ' mongrel hens,' as he is pleased to 

 call them. Perhaps the public would also be gratified to 

 learn the manner in which he obtained the first premium at 

 the recent Agricultural Fair in Providence, R. I. Was it 

 not done by entering several coops of fowls, belonging to 

 another person, in his own name, without that person's 

 knowledge and consent, and pointing out those fowls to 

 one or more of the judges, representing them as his own? 

 No doubt the books of the society, and those of the railroad 



corporation which conveyed Mr. C 's poultry to and 



from the fair, if compared, will throw some light upon the 

 subject. Is not this the manner in which he has frequently 

 played his card ; or, in other words, ' laid 'em all out' ? 

 As I have always treated him as a gentleman, a neighbor 

 and friend, to what cause can I impute this low, mean 

 contemptible and underhand manner of exalting himself at 

 my expense ? I would advise him, in conclusion, to peruse 

 -Slsop's moral and instructive fable of the anabitious Jackdaw, 

 and* learn from that, that however well a course of decep- 

 tion and duplicity may at first prosper, the day of exposure 

 and disgrace will come, and the ungainly Jackdaw, stripped 

 of his ill-gotten plumage, will stand forth in all his native 

 blackness and deformity." 



Now, I have no doubt, that this Mr. , when he 



read the above "card" (which must have cost its author 

 considerable time and money), felt very badly about it, the 



