Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of the Hen Fever: A Humorous Record
I have followed this extraordinary mania, from its incipient stages to its final death, or its cure, as the reader may elect to term its conclusion. The first symptoms of the fever were exhibited in my own house at Roxbury, Mass., early in the sum mer of 1849. From that time down to the opening of 1855 (or rather to the winter of I have been rather intimately con nected with the movement, if common report speaks correctly; and I believe I have seen as much of the tricks of this trade as one usually meets with in the course of a single natural life.
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