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Hamburgs
THE 
 
 Book of the Hamburgs, 
 
 A BRIEF TREATISE 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 MATING, REARING AND MANAGEMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF HAMBURGS.
By L. FRANK BAUM.
HARTFORD, CONN.:
H. H. STODDARD, Publisher.
1886.
Copyright, 1886, by H. H. Stoddard, Hartford, Conn.
The Book of the Hamburgs.
Long before what we now call “fancy fowls” wereknown or recognized (in fact, long before the memoryof any person now living), Hamburgs were keptand bred to feather among the peasants of Yorkshireand Lancashire in England, and by them exhibited atthe small town and county fairs in their neighborhood.Of course they were then known under different names,the Blacks being called “Black Pheasant Fowls” and theSpangled varieties “Lancashire Mooneys” and “YorkshirePheasants”; while such a variety as the PenciledHamburgs were either wholly unknown or else were solittle thought of that they have left no record of theirorigin, if, indeed, they are natives of England at all.
EARLY HISTORY.
Mr. Wright, who has traced these fowls back stillfurther, inclines to the belief that at some period whereofwe have no knowledge the Penciled varieties formeda part of the Hamburg family, although our earliest positiveknowledge traces them to direct importations fromHolland, where they were brought in great numbers, andwere originally known under the names of “Dutch EverydayLayers” or “Dutch Everlasting Layers.”
As such a thing as a black or spangled variety of6this fowl was utterly unknown in Holland, it is presumablethat at some period the penciled varieties wereexported to Holland and there bred and cherished, whilethey were allowed to run out or sink into insignificancein England. We cling to this belief so tenaciously onaccount of the wonderful similitude which marks thecharacteristics of the Hamburg family, in spite of thefact that one branch came from Holland and the otheris emphatically English. These two branches, namely,the Penciled and the Spangles and Blacks, resemble noother varieties of fowls in the slightest degree, whiletheir common characteristics are the absence of the incubatinginstinct, clean, slender legs, neat rose combs, small,round and white ear-lobes, and the light, but sweepingand graceful, lines of form which are wholly their ownand unapproachable by any other breed of fowls, nomatter how fine their symmetry. If this were notenough to stamp them wit                        
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