48 PIGEON'S AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



It is obvious tliat no fauciei' sends fjood birds to dealers. 

 If for example he lias a sterile cock, from which he can 

 never hope for progeny: a barren hen that never laid, and 

 never could hiy an egg, a wry tailed or a hook beaked bird, 

 or one vrith bad eyes or malformation of the feet; does any 

 one suppose he sends it to a customer ? Not much. He has 

 too much sense to raise the storm of indignation that would 

 follow. Too much sense to lose not only one patron, but all 

 the friends of the same ; and so, when he iinds his loft stock- 

 ed with freaks of this kind he simply bundles them up and 

 sends them to a dealer, hoping never to hear from tliem 

 again. 



