Show c I WINNING FIRST PRIZE I Henrietta lien Hen was waiting waiting- as al patiently as sh sha could for the fair fall to come to an end She tried to close her ears to the boasts of or her neighbors on on ort either side of her that they were going to win the first prize She had heard hoard too many unpleasant unpleasant unpleasant un un- un- un pleasant remarks about herself herself- to have even the slightest hope of winning any prize at all let all let alone the first Anyhow well we'll be going home tonight Henrietta said to herself And Ill I'll never never never come to another fair Ill I'll go and hide way up high in the tho haymow where they cant can't find me before Ill I'll spend another week In a place like this While Noll she e was s muttering t I under r h her i I br breath like l that s some men c came up to her pen And Hen prompt promptly I squatted down in the furthest corner of i it It hoping they wouldn't wouldn t say anything I disagreeable about her She didn't even look at her lies callers And soon they thoy moved I away Then Henrietta glanced up She noticed noticed no no- blue dangling from tile front of or her pen len And there was a a. greater commotion com com- motion than ever on all sides aides of ot her What is Js It it she cried What has happened Neighbor No 1 I on her right shot a I spiteful look at her Those stupid Judges Judges' she spluttered marie mane a terrible blunder They They've ve gone and given you jou OU and your chicks the I first prize And of ot course it was meant i I I I I I I I I II I I I I I II I 1 I I for tel me and mine I It screamed neighbor No 2 on Henrietta's left Who Vho won second and third cried a a. noisy hen from across the way I both at the other end of the hall hail somebody shrieked Its an outrage It Isn't fair Weve We've been cheated Henrietta Hens liens nearest I neighbors clamored But nobody paid I any attention to them thorn t I I IhO As for foi Henrietta nr she didn didn't t quite know Vs lh el l ms I II j hO how to act She bhe had Intended when e she left home to do a good deal of strutting I Iback I back and forth in her herpen pen with now and I then a pause to preen herself to make i I 1 sure that she looked her best But somehow somehow somehow some some- how she no longer cared to put on grand airs as of old She remembered that some of the other hens at the fair fall had been haughty and proud and had smoothed their feathers declaring boldly that they expected to win the tho first prize I Henrietta had heard it said that fins fine III feathers don dont don't t make fine birds And she knew at last what that meant It meant i that gay clothes and lofty ways and boastful talk were of no account at all So Henrietta tried to behave as if I nothing unusual had happened She bhe he told her chicks ts that they were going home I that evening and that she would be II glad to be back on the farm again among plain At last Johnnie Green and his father came to load Henrietta and her family I into the wagon Well Veil said old horse Ebenezer to Henrietta Heniietta Did you jou OU enjoy the races races I I didn didn't t have a chance to see them I sh she r replied That B a pity he told her And then I he asked her laer What s that blue tag han hanging from your jour our pen pen I That said Henrietta that Henrietta that means that my chicks won the first prize I She helped win it herself cried old I dog Spot who was s yelping a about t the wagon Our little s speckled hen eo was the best hen at the fair I Nonsense Henrietta exclaimed but all the same she couldn't help being being- I pleased I. I THE END I I CopyrIght right 1921 by Metropolitan Newspaper News News- paper laper Service I II Tomorrow Tomorrow-In In a new set of Bailey tales Miss Misa Kitty Cat arrives at Farmer Greens Green's s shouse I II house anti and meets e old Dog Spot p Ye He lie likes d I to tease hei hes' and so does Me Catbird t l But Moses House always tries to hide when she is around He calls her Miss 1 Snooper I |