It is not every common gullet-fancier that can properly esteem it.

There is, however, so little difference in the various members of the family, either as regards hardiness, laying, or hatching, that the most incompetent fancier or breeder may indulge his taste without danger of making a bad bargain.

[Illustration: A POULTRY-FANCIER, HEARING THAT DEFENCES

And my only daughter, for whom I had dreamed such a wonderful future, is engaged to be married to an inebriated newt fancier.

Let's go on and see what sort of a lunch that large-hearted fossil fancier is going to give us.

Ippolito, who was a man of no delicacy, probably made use of him on every occasion that required address, the smallest as well as greatest,an interview with a pope one day, and a despatch to a dog-fancier the next.

Did He ordain that the crop and tail-feathers of the pigeon should vary in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fan-tail breeds?

Not being much of a dog fancier, he soon tired of old Crusoe, and gave him away to a gentleman, who took him down to Florida, and that was the end of him.

The commencement of the dog-show era in 1859 enabled classes to be provided for Bulldogs, and a fresh incentive to breed them was offered to the dog fancier.

With these special points attended to, the novice should find no difficulty in successfully becoming a Bulldog fancier, owner, and breeder.

Ormskirk Charlie might be successfully entered with others equally well bred from the kennels of that good trainer and fancier,

As to his origin, there is considerable conflict of opinion, owing to the natural difficulty of tracing him back to that period when the dog-fancier, as he flourishes to-day, was all unknown, and the voluminous records of a watchful Kennel Club were still undreamed of.

Few of these old unregistered breeds would attract the eye of the fancier accustomed to judge a dog parading before him in the show ring.

I was sauntering along Broadway once, and was attracted by a bird-fancier's shop.

I hope your second, Brother Joel, is a little fancier than this one.

After we had been a few months in the country, a friend, who was a great pigeon-fancier, wished to add some new varieties to his cote, and offered to send us, as a present, seven or eight pairs of those he wished to part with.

" Sir Bale spoke jocularly, but with the interest of a bird-fancier; a taste which, when young, he had indulged; and for the moment forgot his cares and the object of his unwonted excursion.

As a human being he could not but respond to her friendly overtures, but as a dog fancier she held no place in his esteem.

Among the most important are "On the Venetian Lagoons," "Old Stone Pines, Lido, Venice," "Evening on Lake Lugano," "Evening Glow on the Dolomites," "The Old Bird Fancier," "Moonrise on Crowborough, Sussex."

"Suppose the confounded apple-fancier won ages ago, didn't he?"

[Footnote 166: The inventor of the auspices ex tripudiis or the feeding of chickens was evidently an ingenious poultry fancier who succeeded in securing the care of his favourites at the public charge.]

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