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Show HEN THAT RIDES HORSEBACK. . I Kentucky Fowl Becomes Famous aa H an Equestrienne. H Danvlllo, Ky. It has remained for 9 Boyd county to produce tho most ro-mnrkablo ro-mnrkablo hen in Kentucky, it not lu tho ontlro country, tho bird being an v equostrleuno ot such pronounced abll- yt Ity as to seriously' Jeopardlzo tho llfo, k Jt of a valuable horse Tho hen Is owned I A by John, II. Stout, who lives In Lex- 'lr lngton avenue. Two years ago he got fcj'. a number ot Plymouth Rock cblckons, p ' among thorn being a pullet $- Sho at onco took up with the horse, dining from tho samo trough, and '$SI' finally loarned to rldo Mr. Stout's buggy horso. The animal became ac- ' customed to his unusual rider aud could nover bo gotten out of a Jog. 'Mill- Yosterday Fred Vormlllou drove his lllj flno barnoss horso In from tho coun- WFT try and stabled the animal at Stout's. -"fffl? Late In tho afternoon, when he went fflRjii to get him, the hon was found perched '$831 on tho back ot tho horse and riding 9 in 'a circle as though she enjoyed It. i Tho animal was nearly doad, as ho a I had beon whizzing around the lot at 'Mm a high speed for hours. Although a HI hen, sho la strictly fashionable, rides 'IPI astride, and tho horses nover (o too |