Show HOW TO RAISE A HEN fortne for tn only once did I 1 interfere with my wives management of the chicken department of our farm and I 1 believe I 1 will tell tho the readers of vic TUB transcript the story 1 I went down to the barn early one morn ing to water my team and there was my wife flati ting with an old lien hen to try end and get atoff it off the nest neat she would make a abgrab at its head or its ita tall but tho the determined billey biddy had the boat beat of ortho tho fight os as it kept picking and squawking in such a lust luty y roan man nev ner that my wito really seemed to be afraid of her feathered majesty 11 W what hit are you trying to do I 1 t naked asked I 1 do said sho 1 I am trying to got get this blasted goose off to sea it t there Is not a acor under her A doer said bald I 1 la in astonishment yes a door replied one BOB rather snappish this blamed root foot of a chicken has bed been setting sott ln ou on a china door knob for the lust last four weeks and ho to have a door acor botched batched by this time lime then why dont you lift ter up said bald 1 I enjoying the bight you try it buia she ahe no as she ho stopped back to give wo mo a show to pet got at the nest I 1 was not exactly in a humor so BO early in tho the morning 0 to o have my hands handa all picked au all over with a nen ben that had bad got its fwu set of teemu the ummer summer before so go I 1 began to 0 o parley medem Alt dun stid ild 1 I ayou you have aroused that animal indignation and got it all out 0 ut H of 0 breath and 1 would bo be a moan mean COWS 11 ly ay bet act for a second barty to attack sue bechn h 1 fop topah enill it bag bp got a baft rest real a an lime lima to recover its in breall A after ter brea hacaj last WO vo will come down wa 1 win will lift aft cheiten off from that do just as easy as I 1 can lia you 11 sand anil IT I MILL inai a 0 krab crab to klos kiss her but my foot fool slipped 0 oil tho the wet floor and over I 1 went on TOY my barj aa it took my difo and ana myself a neatly car 1 hour to off aff tho the wot th a t stuck tu to tny my shift and all 11 i 4 7 as I 1 rolled over in ID trying A t uy by this time I 1 had got tn myself and I 1 concluded to 1 lif off the nort ir if it t boak toak a ton toil ot of dy do doit it this well wea just a faw daysi day boford the af july and the stores in town la had d theu thel j annual display of fireworks in their 11 hii vi dows dona and while walla we were eating 1 I sent one of the atio boys for a bunch of byl crackers trac kera to try their effect on the doth r 4 1 1 loa ing or of her red gamboa ladyship al after breakfast the WL wi ole down to tho the burn to tn a ion lonte W 11 SH fv fash I 1 cession to seo sea how bow dad wall is a lien hen Y the pan paa was ioa simple enough b I 1 I just st ono one end of the bunch of a an at throw thin m uto into the tha nest cost at al 11 the firs pop tho the hen ben relied raised hor her head bend at tile the see c ond pops pop sho she ca cane came me out of that nest neet la in a hurry flaw past us UR as I 1 if f tho the devil wa at E 07 tier her and out of the acor she went ets at lump jump and aw y down the lle d she 5 01 0 1 I 1 we all ran out to see eoe where she won went dj vs ie could hear her reccea clue c lucli k ellk elicit clue clucking king until the noise bolso died awn away in tl 10 6 js ds lance tance I 1 expect she rever stopped uwe tha he got to the other lie aijo of the north poh 1 4 is as that was the direction sho she was goi when v ben we libat saw her ar I 1 with ci a feeling of profound I 1 at tho the complete success of my plan I 1 turned around to wy my wife thorlo salofi salt fI is a lesson to you how bow to get a an n old 0 14 0 of t a nest tier her lilting bitin 9 both your jur hands off 8 with that ore oce of the tha chill chilldon ron g katja Y lell ell the barns barna on tire 11 u gh it was wo va lad had been so inte tivio looking ufler after tho the chicken that we ha faath h forgotten tho the spurting spin tin ers and they eel the dr dry a straw in the tiet nell i ad u i only did wa burn up B bu burn bw n OUO 00 sot act of harness two alowa a barrow ini nt worth of 0 ther other stuff the only thing that stood the iha tire lire was v aa that darned old door knob I 1 expect the bon ben hud had sat bat on that until it had got so hard the tha lira fire could not burn LL lt since then T I 1 ha havo vo not nit to raise any hens I 1 have paid no at whether they sitting on an old door doorknob linoa or on a bale of barbed fence wire D |