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the newajapajfg, about this time, in further proof that tbe 

 vsi-m 9f thi^ huge' WloQn had slipped 9ttt. An ambitious 

 Westerp. aia?i saya : 



"I have long been expecting to hear of the swindling 

 operations of a certain dealer, who makes a great display of 

 pretending to heiye ev^y breed known, or bred in this 

 country ; and, to my certain knowledge, buys all, or nearly 

 all, of his fowls, as wanted, and as many on credit as he can, 

 but.does notpay, nor can the law reach him to make him 

 pay. I believe, also, that the papers that £^dyertise for him 

 are doing it for nothing — that is, that they are not, and 

 never will be paid for it. 



" ^uch a CQurse, in my opiniop, is, no better than high- 

 way robbery ; and I hereby give said person fair warning to 

 act honestly hereafter, or I will point him out in away that 

 shall not be misunderstood, as I cannot see such rascality 

 perpetrated, a^d reniain silent- 



" A man who deals in high-priced fowls, in receiving pay 

 in advance, has his customers completely at his mercy, 

 especially when he is not responsible for a copper ; and at 

 the rates that fowls sell for — say, from ten dollars to 

 one hundred dollars a pair — purchasers should receive 

 what is promised them, — good specimens of the pure 

 breeds. So far as weight is concerned, a pair of fowls 

 will fall off a few pounds in a journey of a week or less, 

 in a cramped condition, and perhaps without food for a por- 

 tion of the time ; but in other respects justice should be 

 done to the confiding purchaser." 



Beautiful ! — poetical ! — musical ! This advertiser, 1 

 have no doubt, keeps only pure stock. I do not know who 

 he. is; but, if I wanted to buy (which I don't), I should 

 certainly apply to such an honest and juatiee-loving person, 



