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Corntemtible yanky, fer ! i sed nothin an kep shaidy, an 

 stuk to it that i gut em to breed wite fouls out on — caua i 

 Ment peeple shudent larf at me, no how ! 



"Wei, the nex lot of chickns i gut wus black as thun- 

 der ! black, Geo Burnam — bred out of yur Patent yaller 

 impoted preemum stock, that yu an the lyin Noospappers 

 ced wus pure bludds. i chocked Every wun on em quick- 

 er 'n scatt -^ wen i found urn, an ef Yude a bin thare then 

 i guess you Wuddent razed not more'n ten thowsen more 

 fouls to cheet Peeple with after ide a gut a holt on yure 

 desaitful gullet. 



' ' never yu mind now, yuve gut my monny an yu can 

 maik the most of it. aint yu a Pooty kine of mann ? dont 

 yu think yu ort tu hav yure Nairn put in the nuspapper an 

 let em say more 'n fifty times a Munth that yu breed onny 

 pure Impoted stock ? dont yu feel nice wen Yu heer. about 

 the luck that peeple has with the stuf, you impose on em in 

 this shaimfiill maner ? Yu muss be a Nise kine of a sort 

 of mann, i dont think. 



" i tell yu wot i think on yu. i think if yu Shud taik to 

 sum onnest imploiment, sech as drivin a express Waggin or 

 sorring wood, yude be Considurd a gentle mann Compaired 

 with wat yu now be, everyboddy nose how yu ar cheetin 

 and Gougin and bleadin the publick, an yur naim stinks 

 wuss 'n a cle Hen-cupe enny how. i spose tho ef yu shud 

 taik to enny kine of onness sort of way tu git a livin it ud 

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