. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". hen never had aught to do with naming the Brahma always opposed this bald nonsense, and would never permit Dr. Ben-nett, Mr. Cornish, or Mr. Anybody to thus misname my fowls. Every-body in England and America knew this ; though my name was, by others,sometimes mentioned in this connection. But, if Mr. Cornish, Dr. Bennett,or Mr. Wright; Dr. Gwynne, or Mr. Baily; Mr. Tegetmeier, or His EoyalHighness Prince Albert, chose (as some did, I believe, after a while) to callmy Gray Shanghaes Brahmas, could I help it ? I never called any oftheir
. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". hen never had aught to do with naming the Brahma always opposed this bald nonsense, and would never permit Dr. Ben-nett, Mr. Cornish, or Mr. Anybody to thus misname my fowls. Every-body in England and America knew this ; though my name was, by others,sometimes mentioned in this connection. But, if Mr. Cornish, Dr. Bennett,or Mr. Wright; Dr. Gwynne, or Mr. Baily; Mr. Tegetmeier, or His EoyalHighness Prince Albert, chose (as some did, I believe, after a while) to callmy Gray Shanghaes Brahmas, could I help it ? I never called any oftheir fowls Gray Shanghaes, surely ! How a sensible man, who writes so cleverly as Wright does, usually, couldhave wrought himself up to penning such a tirade as he thus has, is morethan I can comprehend — since it is notorious that I opposed it in com-mittees ; in my writings; in conventions; in public and private ; first, last,and always, — upon the ever-constant principle that my fowls were GrayShanghaes 99 from the start, and not PEA-COMBED PARTRIDGE COCHIN HEX, 3 YEARS OLD the original stock of C H. Edmonds, Melrose, Mass. BURN HAM VS. WEIGHT. 145 These had steadily been my assertions. Still, Mr. Wright kept calling mehard names, declaring that I u never had any genuine Brahmas (who says Idid ?), and that Burnham might have bred some tolerable imitation Brahmas(which I didnt). I had never even said I had any Brahmas w whatever, gen-uine or imitation ; that I ever tried to breed Brahmas, or pretended I did;I had never even called my fowls Brahmas/ and never would. And I surelymade no statement, oral or written, in which Mr. Cornishs fowls were involved,where I was a witness more or less reliable, as Mr. Wright states ; be-cause his u Chittagongs or u Brahmapootras, or whatever he named them,never interfered with my Gray Shanghaes any more than did Dr. Ben-netts Wild East-India Fawn-colored Dorkings, at this same periodnotable. Mr. Wright lays great
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