278 THE HISTOEY OP THE HEN FEVER. 



lara each (cheap enough, to be sure), in accordance witli 

 his directions, and he was delighted with them. I do not 

 now entertain a shadow of doubt that every one of those ten 

 " different varieties " were bred from white hens and a black 

 cock, of the ordinary " Shanghae " tribe. 



