Show IT ro THE OLD HENS amateur fancier thought his re had ended an indiana man tells of the eff efforts orts of an author belonging to the hoosier school of historical novelists to put in his leisure time as a hen farm CT er in that state the literary per sons venture afforded his agricultural neighbors no end of amusement during the first year the amateur farmer d sc that all his little chickens aich were confined in coops were languishing at the point of death the novelist ment ent over his hen literature to locate the cause of the trouble but to no avail finally he called upon an old chap named rawlins to whom he put the question what do yaa suppose Is the mat ter with those chickens well I 1 dunno said kawlins rawlins what do you teed feed ema feed them theme exclaimed the novel 1st farmer why I 1 don t feed them anything then howd how d you suppose they was agoan to lived I 1 presumed replied the literary y person that the old hens had milk enough tor for them now lippincott Lippin cotts a magazine |