Show eQ e Count that day lost 1 t always say eat In which you didn't t learn And yet yet some some of the tho thoI I things one learns might have lx boon beon on Just a as well unlearned For or instance Id Dearden's Store Slora at Monday I engaged In pleasant ant conversation with a lady who opened my ears She was buying I eggs f I Why don't dont you buy hens hen and raise ire your own eggs I asked I There are two hens and they lay nearly every day But nut I wont won't eat the eggs egg Why Because Be ne- Because cause the hens run loose that's why I was waa flabbergasted and so 60 ex ex- reseed d myself But the tho laughing group croup up in the store corroborated der her belief laId by hens hent which run run loose loose are are not good They are str strong ng This ThIe Is rank heresy I and every running running loose hen In the world resent It bitterly And AndI I am what Is well known as an anold anold anold old hen man myself i sat H p One Ono of my earliest memories Is about chickens I grew up with chickens chickens' They ran wild like liko crazy If U a hen ben was waa kept In Iii It Was because she ehe didn't feel teel well and and referred preferred not to go out today she was moody Maybe i too fast tast yesterday and became in love But Buthe ithe he Was free tree to go out If she Wished touring During the heavy winter we I had to k ke keep p the 21 hens in ot of course n Duff But t ne nester neY-et er Never bever was wu lh the e fin any Such conversation nv a as My ity the eggs ggs taste good since I Ithe the hens are Me locked up I Oh yes Indeed I Just Jutt hate to tee see Spring come because the hens hen will run loose and the eggs eggl will taste strong Most of our chickens spent a great deal of at lime lImo in the tho feed teed yard well populated by b both th hogs hogsand hogsand and cattle Their diet was never mentioned never noticed We took it for granted So did the storekeeper who bought the eggs wo We didn't eat Mother made angel food tood cakes tremendously delicious N Never eVe t strong Easter Sunday there was always a contest to see who could eat the most hard boiled eggs eggs Some of ot the hired men ato ate more than a dozen Cant Can't remember seeing a man pass ass out from overindulgence over oyer indulgence In strong egg eggs I In fact filet the only real strong eggs egg I ever met up with were the ones onea the hens laid under the granary and went away and forgot about We took them out In the pasture and threw them at prairie dogs They were were strong strong especially especially down Supposing you were a hen Would you enjoy spending your life Ute in Jn a coo coop Wouldn't it be fun Ito to waddle out in the field and scratch around for beetles and worms and stuff turn Nature endowed endow endow- ed od you ou with strong claws and digging muscles should muscles should you grow soft sort and listless s and live out your days staring out the window and laying eggs which would make people say saT My these eggs are delicious So weak I Next Monday l I fully Intend to atop stop again In Dearden's Store In and learn more Perhaps I shall even ask sk for forone forone forone one egg from each hen one sheltered one wild and see If I Ican Ican Ican can tell the difference The nicest thing about newspaper newspaper news news- paper Japer work is meeting such wonderful wonderful won won- people For Instance we needed a new correspondent In Oakley I made many inquiries which I believed were discreet and finally settled very happily upon Peggy The next week I called at her home and f he met me at the door with a strictly level Jevel gaze gaie How many people was waa her I query did you ask Mk If It If I KG Iwu was f ll t I How w you taU going going to explain that in an organisation llon lIk tike like ours outs there's theres room tot for only one 8 rew rew- ball And tb that t one inevitably has to be be Mac Mac I. I |