Intnbndicn. 



"How now, Dame Partlet, the hen!* 



Shakespeare. 



I HAVE been often asked to publish a work on 

 Poultry, and have complied, because I think I 

 have no right to withhold any unit I may 

 possess, from the sum of human knowledge. 

 I also, naturally, desire to afford satisfaction to 

 my friends; while any who are the reverse (if 

 such there be) must admit that I fulfil for them 

 the wish of the Patriarch of Uz : "0 that mine 

 enemy had written a book." 



