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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1693, 7 January 1874, Page 3

Dr Willett, lecturing in Boston rceently, told a droll story of himself. He said that at one time whon lie was a connoisseur in bird. 'staffing,' he used to criticise other ' people's bird stuffing severely. Walking with, a gentleman one day, he stopped at a window where a gigantic owl was being exhibited. " You see," said the doctor to his .friend, "that, there is a magnificent bird utterly ruined by unskilful mounting. Notice the mounting. Execrable, isn't it? No living fowl ever roosted in that position. And the eyes are a third larger than any owl ever possessedi'* At this moment the stuffed bird raised one foot and solemnly blinked at his critic, who said very little more about stuffed birds that afternoon;