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game to tlie back-bone. He is, fortunately, easily 

 cowed. Probably bis motto is — 



" He that fights and runs away 

 May live to fight another day." 



He makes the best of unfortunate circum- 

 stances, and calmly acquiesces in his fate, say- 

 ing in the spirit of his native lord, the majestic 

 and philosophic Don, " My son, if thou seest thy 

 house on fire, approach, and warm thy hands 

 at it." 



The following remarks will be appreciated by 

 amateurs of this widely spread, and popular 

 variety, kindly given to me by a well-known 

 amateur: — 



"Let the bird have — 1st, a pure white face, 

 deep in the lobes, and of good space above the 

 eye, and neither too fat above nor below it, 

 yet not so skinny-faced as to lose that angular 

 oblong shape which imparts such reverence to 

 the fowl in question; 2nd, erectness, or all but 

 erectness, in comb; 3rd, length in body, and of 

 leg; 4th, long clean neck; 5th, upright carriage; 

 Gth, plumage metallic green; and, 7th, good size. 

 I have stated the points in the order of their 



