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account, for I should not, in that case, have put 

 prohibitory prices on my exhibition pens, but 

 sold them at a remunerative rate. I have refused 

 sixteen guineas for two favourite goslings, and 

 more than once ten for a Dorking cockerel — 

 money could not buy them. I have always 

 found my prices pay expenses of exhibition in 

 Scotland. It is different when a long journey 

 has to be undertaken to London, Liverpool, and 

 Birmingham. Fame, however, there acquired, 

 sells eggs and stock. 



[Balance Sheet. 



