good legal opinion not to infringe on any other) original with 

 this Club, and following the best precedent as far as possible ; to- 

 gether with a petition that the English Penciled Runners be ad- 

 mitted as the breed-type. There is no way in which the English 

 Penciled Runner, as now bred, can come in under the present 

 Standard demands, because it does not and will not "follow in 

 every respect" the type at present described in the American 

 Standard. 



I am not sufficiently a prophet, to be able, like others to tell 

 what will be done ; there is too much human nature and warring 

 business interest involved. But of this I feel sure: That the 

 men on the Revision committee have not given out through the 

 above news-mongers, what they will do in settlement of the In- 

 dian Runner muddle ; for I think they are both too wise and too 

 decent to do this. Besides, the two above reports do not agree !^ 



The one thing that is most certain just now, is that unless, 

 the English Penciled type is admitted as the breed type, the mud- 

 dle will grow worse instead of better, because some of the breed- 

 ers of the American Standard type are adopting the tactics of the 

 desperate, and are leaving no stone unturned to cloud the origin, 

 the history and the present situation of the breed. They have 

 said that these birds came from the West Indies, from Scotland 

 from Canada, from Belgium; and even that they were manufac- 

 tured in this country. They have said, and are still saying that 

 the birds were named by a woman resident in America, after 

 an American Indian. This christener — it is claimed — sent the 

 Runners to many foreign countries. The fact that items on In- 

 dian Runners were in print before the date of this claimed nam- 

 ing, makes no apparent difference with the vogue of this amazing 

 story. The fact that ex-Hon. Secretary Wilson said years ago 

 that his birds had bred true to type for fifty years, makes no dif- 

 ference with the story here that they were named something like 

 thirty years ago; it is repeated just the same. The latest repe- 



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