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The Question of a Feather: How an Editor Got Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Title
The Question of a Feather: How an Editor Got Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Creator
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Synopsis
"The Question of A Feather" narrates the story of the fictitious journal Hendom and its editor's interaction with a faithful reader.
Publisher
Farm-Poultry Publishing Company. Boston, Massachusetts
Excerpt
"…Here was precisely what the editor had always feared—that someone would follow his instructions to the letter, and therefore it had been part of his instructions that they should do no such thing. Before everything he had advised the use of judgment in keeping hens. So that if sister Martha had followed his own instructions to the letter, be it upon her own head…."
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Contributor
John Henry Robinson, Editor
Relation
Farm-Poultry, Volume 14, Number 14, page 301-302
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