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Show Misceflany . HOME ECONOMY. VTELL, Bess," said John, "I've ' found a plan to cut down home expenses; we'll get some chickens, twenty-five, a roll of woven fence, and build a coop in our back lot I think we have the room and then with eggs and Leghorn hens prosperity will bloom. Aud those they call Rhode Island Reds, as chunky as a goose, we'll keep on hand a bunch of these just for the table use." So lumber, wire and nails were had, the job made quite complete, when from the workman came a bill that took John off his feet. The eggs then came by twos and threes, in April a few more, but from September until spring they bought them by th? score. Paid forty-five forty-five per dozen, all the same as eating gold, and watched the hen-house every day to keep out wind and cold. Next year John bought a sprayer to disinfect the coop, as all the chickens on the place were choking with the roup. They most- ly died that gloomy fall, and John was i sick at heart, but in the spring he brightened up and got another start. FRED WALDO CROCKETT. |