MIGHT DO BETTER NEXT TIME Small Girl's Ingenious Plea for Her Pet Bantam Should Have Softened Soft-ened Daddy's Heart. Five-year-old Mury Jane had a pet bantam hen. Recently the latter hatched six little chickens, but she proved herself to be an unnatural mother and wouldn't take care of them. The family was provoked and Mary Jane's father threatened to sell the hen If she didn't take care of the chickens. That brought Mary Jane to strategy. That evening when her father came home she was waiting for him. , "Where's your hen?" he demanded. "Is she caring for her chickens?" "Oh, no," Mary Jane was very serious. seri-ous. "She's In the hen coop getting ready to lay some more eggs to hatch some more chickens." Indianapolis News.