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Bruce Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 89, 8 December 1913, Page 5

We hart been discussing the high prices fur prize birds at poultry shows (says a correspondent in the Manchester Guardian). The lnghestjprice eve given for a bird, according to an expert, was £lO5 for a partridge wyaudotte, It is now, he saiu, SGuti'ed and in the British Museum. He had overheard a working man wlio had paid £7 10s lor a prize bird at a show remark: "When 1 get home tonight my old gir'll say," k Ow mm oh 'ave you paiu lor that there bird, 'Enery?' and. I will say, 'Seveu-and-six.' -JLhen shen'U say "Wot a lot I' " But daceit brought its punishment to the collier, who paid £4 lor a pigeon and told his wife it cost Dd. .Next night she put the pigeon, which she had cooked, on a plate lor tea, and he had .to eat it without saying a word, it'ox Chronic Chest Complaints, Wpoda' Uteat Peppermint Care, j/o, s/6,