Show i TE d II I i l 1 i iS S TALIE OF F i HEN I BAILEY A GREAT FLURRY There was a great lurry among Farmer Greens Green's hens They all insisted on talking talking talking talk talk- ing at the same time because they had heard an astonishing bit of news It was about Henrietta Hen ifen Wherever she went her neighbors craned their necks at ather atherS her herS Just as if they hadn't seen her every da day for as long as they could remember Henrietta Hen enjo enjoyed ed the notice that everybody took of her She went to some trouble to move about a good deal deai so that all aU might have a chance to stare at her For if there was one thing she liked lilted it was attention There was a reason why Henrietta had suddenly become the most talked of member member member mem mem- ber of the flock She was going to the county fair Furthermore she expected to take all her children with her There wasn't the least doubt that it was all true The whole flock had heard Johnnie Green and his father talking about it Of course everybody asked Henrietta Hen a great number numb r of questions When was she going to leave eave How long did she expect to stay at the fair What did she In intend nd to do there Would she wear her best clothes if It rained There was I Ino no end of such inquiries I Unfortunate Unfortunately I Henrietta Hen could answer very few of them Never having visited a fair she had no no- idea what a I fair fall was like She only guessed that when when the time came she and her family would be put into a pen loaded upon a wagon and jolted over the road that led to the fair wherever it might be Le But Henrietta didn't intend to let her neighbors find out how now little she knew mew about fairs She said that before startIng startIng starting start- start Ing she expected to wait walt for the wagon that she hoped to stay at the fair fall as long longas as it lasted because she didn't want to miss anything and that she Intended to come home when the wagon brought her Furthermore she planned to wear her herbest herbest herbest best apron anyway because there was sure to be fair weather at a fair How could it be he otherwise Old Ebenezer the horse told her to be cr rA tn to see ee the tho races ThY th the f best part of a fair she said In my younger days das I used to take part in them And then he added Theres nothing else at a fair that's worth looking at What about the poultry show Hen- Hen Hen asked him She didn't know what poultry shows were but she he heard F Farmer Green mention them I 1 never paid any attention to the poultry exhibit the horse Ebenezer re- re plied I 1 never took part in that I suppose sup- sup it might interest interest- interest you however P pose pORe sort of Henrietta Hen lien smiled a a. knowing the old smile And she didn't believe I I horse lorse knew a race from a poultry show It If If he ever went to a fair I dare say he hew hew w was s hitched outside the fence she sniffed with Polly Plymouth Rock cackled that amusement And she said something displeased Henrietta lIen Hen exceedingly Are you going to to take that duckling hatched out she asked that you Certainly not Henrietta snapped Please Miss Mis Plymouth Rock never mention mention men men- tion him again Im I'm going to the fair strangers and I shouldn't care among accident to have them know about that that to mE not I for or an |