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Old Welch Goes to the Show: After Getting Ready--Good and Ready
Title
Old Welch Goes to the Show: After Getting Ready--Good and Ready
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Synopsis
Old Welch was a breeder and shower of White Wyandotte chickens. He was an expert at toeing the line between legal preparation of fancy chickens for exhibition and illegal grooming. This story recounts the way Welch describes what he does as a way of balancing "grooming" with "taming."
Publisher
Farm-Poultry Publishing Company. Boston, Massachusetts
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Excerpt
"Old Welch did not care about having his neighbors in when he was getting ready for the show, because, as he said, 'The laity don't understand, and can't be expected to.'
Still, he did not admit there was anything to conceal. He used to say, 'I guess 'tis fair enough to groom and tame the birds a little before showing.' He scorned the defence that if he was bad others were worse. Other might be worse, he was not bad. He was an honest man…."
page 334
Still, he did not admit there was anything to conceal. He used to say, 'I guess 'tis fair enough to groom and tame the birds a little before showing.' He scorned the defence that if he was bad others were worse. Other might be worse, he was not bad. He was an honest man…."
page 334
Contributor
John Henry Robinson, Editor
Relation
Farm-Poultry, Volume 14, Number 16, page 334-335
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