# Gay-Neck

Author: Mukerji, Dhan Gopal, 1890-1936; Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72086

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gay-Neck+Mukerji&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The city of Calcutta, which boasts of a million people, must have at least two million pigeons. Every third Hindu boy has perhaps a dozen pet carriers, tumblers, fantails, and pouters. The art of domesticating pigeons goes back thousands of years in India, and she has contributed two species of pigeons as a special product of her bird fanciers, the fantail and the pouter. Love and care have been showered on pigeons for centuries by emperors, princes and queens in their marble palaces, as well as by the poor, in their humble homes. The gardens, grottos and fountains of the Indian rich--the small field of flowers and fruits of the common folks, each has its ornament and music,--many-colored...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gay-neck-72086/chapters/1/index.md)