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CHAPTER III. THE FIRST FOWL-SHOW IN BOSTON. Never in the history of
modern "bubbles," probably, did any mania exceed in ridiculousness
or ludicrousness, or in the number of its victims surpass this
inexplicable humbug, the "hen fever." Kings and queens and
nobility, senators and governors, mayors and councilmen, ministers,
doctors and lawyers, merchants and tradesmen, the aristocrat and
the humble, farmers and mechanics, gentlemen and commoners, old men
and young men, women and children, rich and poor, white, black and
gray,? everybody was more or less seriously affected by this
Curious epidemic. The press of the country, far and near, was alive
with accounts of "extraordinary pullets," "enormous eggs" (laid on
the tables of the editors), "astounding prices" obtained for
individual specimens of rare poultry; and all sorts of people, of
every trade and profession and calling in life, were on the qui
vive, and joined in the hue-and-cry, regarding the suddenly and
newly ascertained feet thathens laid eggs - sometimes; or, that
somebody's crower was heavier, larger, or higher on the legs (and
consequently higher in value), than somebody else's crower. And the
first exhibition of the society with the long name came off duly,
at last, as agreed upon by the people, and myself. "Thepeople" By
this term is ordinarily meant the body-politic, the multitude, the
citizens at large, the voters, the ? the ? a ? the masses; the
well, no matter At the period of which I am now writing, the term
signified the "hen-men." This covered the whole ground, at that
time. Everybody was included, and thus nobody was left outside At
this firSt show, the committee " flattered themselves " (and who
ever heard of, or from, a committee that did n't do this ) that
never, within the ...
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