. Burnham's new poultry book. Poultry. CHAPTER XIX. THE GAME FOWL, AND ITS USES. Epicures insist that no domestic bird known equals the Game Fowl, for the spit. Cock-fighting amateurs (in that line of " the fancy,") affirm, with equal empha- sis, that this is the only one for the pit. We will take it for granted that both these assumptions are correct. We have eaten this toothsome fowl-meat, frequently, but never raised a game chicken, or fought one; though, in our time, we have been present at more than one contested main, where hundreds of these spunky, 227. Please note that these
. Burnham's new poultry book. Poultry. CHAPTER XIX. THE GAME FOWL, AND ITS USES. Epicures insist that no domestic bird known equals the Game Fowl, for the spit. Cock-fighting amateurs (in that line of " the fancy,") affirm, with equal empha- sis, that this is the only one for the pit. We will take it for granted that both these assumptions are correct. We have eaten this toothsome fowl-meat, frequently, but never raised a game chicken, or fought one; though, in our time, we have been present at more than one contested main, where hundreds of these spunky, 227. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burnham, George Pickering, 1814-1902. [from old catalog]. New York, Amerian news company;
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