Show EGG GOLB HAS MAP S SHOWING HOWING SPOT OF BURIED TREASURE ON SHELL ezra delivers one dollar for gypsy wares and gets wonderful secret in return for his money tyson vt VL ezra burt who lives about a mile east cast of the corners has a hen which no amount of money will buy it Is a scrawny ill III appearing fowl with bedraggled feathers and a semi bald head and what Is more ll it lias has laid only one egg in its entire two years ye ars existence still old bettyas Bet betsy ns the lien hen Is called has a niche lr ill ezras heart find and gets tile the very best grain the farm affords the secret of all this la Is that the one egg betsy laid contained on its shell a raised waterline water line itne map of the spot where old jeremiah burt ezras ezra s great grandfather burled buried his big gold at the he time ot of the revolutionary war and with the aid of this map ezra basra recovered the tre treasure treasure Aure just how much t this his was no one has been able to find out but it Is known that the mortgage on the farm has been paid oft off and the burt family Is living in ili comfort the baits gave up hunting for the secreted wealth 40 years ago after they had searched and dug until they were wera tired out they knew that the paternal durt burt sunk his gold somewhere in the earth and went off to war without telling its his family where lie he had placed it further than that it was on the farm lost last summer a gypsy came along selling beads and laces and offered to go into a trance and solve the treasure riddle provided ezra bought a dollars lai s worth of her wares varea burt took up the offer and in her trance the woman said that some day an old scrawny hen would lay an ag in which would be found a map if this were followed the treasure would be found ezra thought he be was stung but he paid the dollar nothing more happened until a month ago when betsy let s y was found in the wood box behind the kitchen stove horrified at the idea of having a hen in her kitchen mrs burt shooed her out and was surprised to find an egg nestling in the shavings the egg had peculiar pec tillar raised lines on the shell and ezra was called lie he remembered the prophecy of the gypsy and carefully studied the shell sure enough there was wail A a map walf a little s tta at the base of an old maple tree in the sugar orchard chaid ox with a pick and shovel burt set forth and an hour later returned with a discolored copper soap kettle heavy with gold the family kept the secret until und the mortgage was paid when it became common property all efforts to get ezra to tell how much money he be found in the kettle have failed |