Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-08 | Page 7 | Had Made Good Haul

HAD MADE GOOD HAUL bankers hunt for ch akens met wah much success A banker in a western city bought some chickens of a ranchman and told the man to deliver them at his house when he went home at noon his wife met him at the door and told him with great consternation that the man brought the chickens as he had promised but instead of putting them in the henhouse had left them on the lawn and they had all disappeared forgetting his dinner he started off in no very amiable frame of mind in pursuit of the missing fowls after scour ng the neighboring alleys for some time he came back triumphant ly driving the lost chicks when in a few das he met the of tending ranchman he demanded se verely what do ou men by leav ing those chickens on my lawn the other daya I 1 hunted the neighborhood over for them and then could find only eleven you did mighty well was the mild reply I 1 left six grace M crawford in harper s