WONDERFUL FEATHERS 
were in earnest. My Yankee was not behind in under- 
taking to supply me forthwith, but, I remarked, that 
upon the production of the feather, it must stand the test 
of being drawn through a tub of warm water.^ This my 
friend did not object to, but after the lapse of four or 
live years my hope of being the possessor of a seventeen- 
foot feather has been blighted, and, 1 fear, never to be 
realized. 
^ Many feathers are fastened together so skilfidly, that with- 
out the test I proposed it is almost impossible to detect the 
join. 
