Show the professors chickens this may not be new but it was new to the reporter who overheard it on an east providence car on oil sunday so it li Is likely that there are others who aho have never heard it 11 the young man who told it was evidently it a collegian as wis was hla big companion 1 I heard a good one on professor of andover Ando vcr he said what was it queried the other well you know he was married during the winter and went housekeeping i just outside the village this spring he thought he would add a few lie hens ns to his stock he already had a dog lie ha set a couple of hens and in time had two large larg broods ot of chickens lie ile 1 was a very 7 ry proud of them thein blit in a week or two tile the chickens began to die he ha called tit in a neighbor to look at the chickens and offer oder advice they were certainly a pretty scaly lot of chickens that the neighbor viewed they were skinny looking and apparently without ambition what do you feed them slaked asked the neighbor of after ter a brief survey feed them responded the professor as though h ha I 1 hear aright why I 1 dont feed them anything I 1 thought ohp the old lien hen had milk enough for or them providence journal |