Show I 1 A DEVOTED WIFE its Is my fathers poultry yard jura was wait a gamecock the most beautifully full bird of tho the kind I 1 ever saw ila had bad several severi tl loaves and 4 it WM was a cu buracan thief to sea the ilia different difford nn tire nira ojill 1 I graces gracca 0 of tile the indie ties in hla his train 11 ho it e mea i inveterate nv 0 t cr a t 0 aig fighter b t e r if t bo c could 1 c fro from m t tho b 0 y barj s r 1 which A h i c h je WM As bon coul tood ez by a light wall hy fly some means tin hn nevi dont dint had bad to bia bail foot feet small and bo be bo be camo came lante MY fly brother tilio loho WK was A medi cat cal student advised us a to poultice poul tico JL it mamma thid tidolph every morning to have bavo lilo its foot feet dros aled mill and though evidently very much allowed hor her to attend to it 16 eat but no im ilia came nod and tho the poor bird began to droop one day wo we beard a loud nogo i a famous game cook had come into tho the yard when tho the gat t e was left open attacked ralph and ana ta had d beaten him bim severely ito ile woi was sorely injured though be bad defended himself well BI mamma ALDIna picked him up an and 4 carried him anayo b but ut next ho he won was out I 1 in n tho the yard warming hunse juniou 1 wa in the uell I 1 as go tco what hat I 1 then taw aw or I 1 could nob M lavo it ralph had bad been location I 1 he DO longer to bo be honored by lia bill faith leu less waves they came first ono one by one and then altogether looking with alt all the contempt they could display ono and another peeked pecked at him and fit at least last tho the ar et ana hia a 0 rl te woot wont straight raight at tiet ia aha Q an p to 0 bira t and 1 aim lt a a so veto dab ilia b benr his hia oyo eye but thare was KM one faithful friend among thorn an awkward brant hrag brown ben frith ir I 1 th no DO pretentious to beauty who flaw to hla rescue resolutely before the prot rito bird for lie be had bad sunk to th the round 0 M if aad ered r un dhami ind alio m ith her wings it too baji ol 01 to LQ leave ab him in in tho the poultry yard so M he anti and hla his U faithful A t fal brown hou hall were placed la ia tuo the rardon bardon tho the toot houna laing left open tor for them shears through the night rome weeks wel and ralph grow weaker wco loir till one on a nor altair we found him am dond dead A grave crave raa dug nod and his has fait faithful lift it wire wife saw him him placed tn in it sho she was wa taken brick back to the yard ard I 1 but she ebo never rallied rall iod I 1 and it few dayal aye of afir ter wo we saw baw her lying cold and life lem on the spot where tho the frend ot of her onoro crous aa heart lay buried bur laid ion burnal |