inal variety, any feeling of enmity toward the favored American 

 type, in itself. But the feeling is very general — I think I may 

 say, fairly universal — that the breed name belongs of right to the 

 original type. The plain fawn with white should have come in 

 if come it must, as a second variety, with a variety name. It is 

 precisely as though the Silver Penciled Wyandotte should attempt 

 to push aside the original Silver Wyandotte, and make insistent 

 claim to being "the only true Wyandotte." Surely "shape makes 

 the breed; color (only) the variety." Is it not so, breeders? 



In November, 1910, after the first edition of this book had 

 gone to the printers, Enghsh interest in Indian Runners was keyed 

 up by a sensational exhibit at the Crystal Palace Show. This ex- 

 hibit was made in the name of Mr. J. W. Walton, and consisted 

 of a team of amazing Indian Runner ducks shown there. Mr. 

 Walton gained all five prizes in each class. The authoritative re- 

 port in "The Feathered World," London, said, concerning this 

 sweeping victory : "And well he might, if an upright carriage has 

 anything to do with the qualifications of a Runner. There's an 

 old saying, 'Like water off a duck's back', but I fail to see how it 

 could be applied to, say, the second prize drake, for he stood so 

 absolutely perpendicular, I doubt if any water could possibly get 

 there in order to run off again ; if it did, the process would be a 

 decidedly rapid one." 



The females were described as of "a soft, sweet shade, be- 

 tzveen a fawn and a buff, with exquisite lacing throughout.' 

 (Those who contend for the greater beauty of the solid fawn, 

 should note how admiringly our English fellow-breeders regard 

 the lacing, or pencihng.) The especially upright carriage char- 

 acterized all the birds of this "wonderful" team, the best speci- 

 men being described thus : "This bird, when the least disturbed 

 or excited, stood perfectly erect, tail down between legs, a level 

 line down back from head to tip of tail." The reporter spoke of 



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