Show she hatch bliem correspondence of the some years back there lived in one of our neighboring settlements a reverend divine of the presbyterian persuasion who found it convenient eo divide his time and attention about equally between poultry raising and converting the cormons mormons Mor mons ho had imported some fine fowls of the plymouth variety and was selling the eggs at a dollar a setting to tho community irrespective of their religious views so it transpired that a leading mormon elder called for a setting of eggs the reverend asked him what his motive was in wanting especially to buy eggs of him wella WelL 1 said the elder t thought that these which so to speak were laid under the shadow of the sanctuary woud hatch out a more staid and less reckless race of chickens than our untutored mormon hens the reverend smiled and counted oufa tho traditional thirteen eggs for a lucky setting meeting the older n couple of weeks after ho enquired what luck he had had with his eggs very bad was the reply oar old mormon hen sat on them a week and then I 1 guess she found out that they were presbyterian and she utterly refused to hatch them out after that |