The least common variety of Old English Game are the Hennies. How it arrived in England and Wales nobody can tell. The late Cornishman, John Harris, who died February 26, 1910 believed that the Phoenicians brought them to Cornwall and Pembroke when they traded them for tin. Other breeders believed them to be natives of Cornwall and Pembroke. It is on record that the South Wales Country of Pembroke challenged all England to a main, any amount of money, any number of birds, any place, for five years without reply as nobody would fight against the “Black Hennies” of Pembroke.
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