Excerpt from The Indian Runner Duck Book: The One Authoritative American Book About This Marvelous Egg Machine One of the English treatises, The Indian Runner, was writen by Jacob Thomlinson, who first knew this duck in County Cumberland. He refers to Mr. Donald's (earlier) work, and al so to a brief treatise by Mr. Henry Digby, giving credit to these men for all items not within his own, personal knowledge. Th illustrations in the Thomlinson pamphlet are from drawings by Mr. J. W. Walton. They give, says Mr. Thomlinson, a clear insight of what a true Runner should and should not be. This shows that Mr. Walton has long been a trusted author ity on Runners, having intimate personal knowledge, both of cor rect type and of history. The models from which these pictures were drawn were ia tended to be used as a guide to both old and new fanciers, to ob tain a more uniform idea of type and standard. This shows how English breeders regard Mr. Walton's drawings, and how they defer to his knowledge of the breed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
