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Show BENEATH THIS MAN'S DIGNITY Was Willing to Do Much, but Drew the Line at Acting as Secretary to Barnyard Fowl. A farmer in one of the neighboring townships, who had gone into scientific scien-tific poultry raising, hit upon the scheme of marking each egg with certain cer-tain data in indelible ink. His idea was to find which variety of chickens laid best, and theu, when the eggs . were hatched, attach a tag to the chicken's legs. He soon found that his hired man was negligent about properly inscribing the eggs. One day not an egg was marked, and the farmer farm-er read him the riot act. The hired man listened in sullen silence until the boss finished. Then he said: "See here. You'll have to get another an-other man." "Why, Jim, you're not going to leave me, after working for me for six years?" "Yes, I am,", returned the hired man. "I've done "all sorts of odd chores for you without a whimper, but t I'm durned if I'm going to stay here and be secretary to any durned hen!" |