It is because he must be choked, and choked effectually, too.

It is the only good, certain way, for whenever he mentions a matter which he is cordially interested in, the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that he secures somebody else's immediate attention to it too, whether it be day or night.
The Black Spanish is an exceedingly fine bird and a costly one.
Thirty-five dollars is the usual figure, and fifty a not uncommon price for a specimen.

Even its eggs are worth from a dollar to a dollar and a half apiece, and yet are so unwholesome that the city physician seldom or never orders them for the workhouse.

Still I have once or twice procured as high as a dozen at a time for nothing, in the dark of the moon.

The best way to raise the Black Spanish fowl is to go late in the evening and raise coop and all.