Identifier: centuryillustratv32newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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-fancier acknowledges the thrall,but pleads in excuse for submitting to it,not more the gratification it affords to thecreative instinct and love of harmony of hisartist nature, than the benefit he finds in itsrecreative action upon his mind; that withthe problems its study forces upon him forsolution, new thoughts are awakened, newemotions are excited, and, returning from things ethereal to things mundane, it iswith brain refreshed and perceptions quick-ened. The pigeon-fancieris the artist among breed-ers. His work of living pictures is the outcome,and to satisfy the same longing that incitesthe painter, the sculptor, or the connoisseur.Sometimes, Pygmalion-like, his bird is hisideal, brought, by his love of it, to the life;or the purpose is defined, and he strives tofill the outline; or he cannot fashion or por-tray, and he finds his satisfaction in possessing,counting the value in the difficulties in theway to it, or in the measure of anothers ap- THE BREEDING OF FANCY PIGEONS. 95
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RED JACOBIN. (OWNED BY H. V. CRAWFORD, NEW YORK CITY.) HOMING PIGEON, BABY MINE. (OWNED BY E. H. CONOVER, KEYPORT, N. J.) FIRST YOUNG BIRD TO MAKE OVER 250 MILES THE DAY OF LIBERATING IN THE AUTUMN RACES — FROM LYNCHBURG, VA., 338 MILES. preciation or envy. But, whether the one orthe other, there is no economic purpose toweight its wings and bring his fancy low. The influences of the pigeon-fancy are re-fining in the habits one must fall into in beingwith the birds, in the enforced quiet and gen-tleness without which the best efforts are lost,in the patience with which one must work andwait for long-deferred results, and in the dis- cipline of the often accompanying disappoint-ment. The pigeon-lover is notably kind andgentle-mannered. He is also thoughtful, sincehis work demands the action of his mind, andthe love of it compels the effort. It may bechilds play as a beginning, or seem to be soto the mere looker-on; but great men andgood, princes, poets, prelates, and judges, arein th

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