We had been discussing the high prices given for prize birds at poultry shows (says a correspondent in the " Manchester Guardian ")• (The highI price ever given for a bird,'according to an expert, was £165 for a; partridge I Wvandotte. It is now, ho said, stuffedand in the British Museum. He had overheard a working man who paid £7 10s for a prize bird at a show remark. "When I get home to-night my old girl'll say. ''Qw.much 'aye you paid for that'theer bird. 'Enery ?' and I will say ' Seven-an'-six.' Then she'll say, 'Wot a lot!' " But deceit brought /its punishment to the collier who paid £4 for a pigeon and told his wife it cost M. Next night she put the cooked pigeon on his plate for tea, and he had'to cat it without saying a word.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 3
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