Show BETRAYED BY A CHICKEN I Influence of a Fowl in Causing nn Estrangement It was Just a plain gaunt ordinary corner grocery chicken an attenuated critter blue and while with yellow eyelashes eye-lashes and a limp but it proved the undoing un-doing of a budding romance atid hardened hard-ened two tender young hearts There was a girl a darkeyed girl a pretty girl a clever girl cultured and lovable lova-ble and living on the east side Naturally Nat-urally there was a youth a nice youth a moral youth a youth with a winning way and gold lining In his teeth At tho lime our history I begins he was living not two blocks from the remple but he knew the way to the nice gIrls home In fact ho had worn a path there They had been keeping com pany more or less for several weeks The more or less means that there were so many youths striving to look good in the eyes of the girl aforesaid that the youth above described could not he I with her always but he was working well In the lead and Il looked a cinch that he would win out He had sluisyn I the girl a number of consecutive cour teales and she thought she would re clprocate by giving him a lunch at her I I home Thinking he would like It bet t I Iflor at least say he liked It better If she prepared the lunch herself she set about providing the viands Among I other things she purchased his chicken for 65 cents As the Jute of the lunch 1 con was two or three days oft she kept the chicken about the house feeding It out oCher own while hand and as suring It that It was doomed to die In a good cause On the day set for the lunch the youth telephoned that business would pre I I I vent his kwplng the appointment That was all right ami the girl old the chicken 16 a neighbor for a quarter using the money so obtained to go out to the lolco with a party of us girls taking along a lunch from home At the lake IMP lunch was spread and just us nil 1 us glrlH wore getting ready to 1n11 lo the youth how In sight Not alone No It 8Lm lie had another girl with him It has been all off with him I I I and tho darkeyed ii tty clever cul J J ilricd lovable > east Si0e KM over since What did the chicken have to do with It Jf the gin had ll1ul sold tc Cicc en and bought a ticket to the lake she would never have known tint thd youth I went out tinre with anoihor girl would I f the Would he have told her Huh |