.... The Quail is a very timorous bird, who never achieves anything
notable, yet he has a crest. The Jay, who is of a warlike and powerful
family, has no crest. There is a moral in this which Aristocracy will
do well to ponder. But the quail is very good to eat and the jay is
not. The quail is entitled to a crest. (In the Eastern States, this
meditation will provoke dispute, for there the jay has a crest and the
quail has not. The Eastern States are exceptional and inferior.)