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Icelandic eggs to the value of §38. I wrote a month afterward 

 to know if he had received the eggs, as I had not heard from him, 

 and got the reply that the eggs had arrived some time ago, but 

 that they were not first-class, and that I had charged him for 24 

 European Buzzard's but only sent him three eggs, and he could 

 only pay me $32 for the eggs. I replied to the effect that I had 

 sent him strictly first-class eggs and was sure I had sent him 24 

 Buzzards, but as he promised to be a good customer I would ac- 

 cept §32 instead of $38. I waited several weeks and got no 

 mqpey and wrote to Winkley several times, when one day a card 

 board box arrived with lid smashed in, containing one third of 

 the eggs which Winkley alleged were not first class. Now the 

 idea of a Professor returning a lut of valuable eggs in a card 

 board box, any school boy would have known better, but Wink- 

 ley intended the eggs to get broken on the way and the result 

 was most of them were broken. 



I then looked for the alleged imperfect eggs and was astonish- 

 ed to find a lot with chipped blow holes, which a lense at once 

 showed had been recently done. I then wrote accusing Winkley 

 of tampering with the blow holes to try and convince me I had 

 sent them in that condition and was astounded when he admitted 

 it, making the excuse that he had been trying to remove the in- 

 ner lining of the eggs. I will leave my readers to draw their own 

 conclusions. The box also contained 11 European Buzzard's 

 eggs, Winkley having forgotten he had said I had only sent him 

 three eggs; he evidently wanted to cheat me out of 21 Buzzards. 



I asked Winkley to pay for the eggs he admitted he had dam- 

 aged and he then threatened to return all the eggs> saying he nev- 

 er ordered them, that they were a poor lot and not true to name 

 and he was in fiiianerel difficulties and could not sell the eggs as 



