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Show Pennsylvania Nature Story. Six weeks ngo a workman in the Pennsylvania repair shops In Allegheny Alle-gheny left two dozen eggs In an abandoned aban-doned tool box In the roundhouse. Steam pipes go through tho box. All over tho eggs a heavy layer of coal soot settled. Three weeks ngo 14 sooty chicks arrived. ar-rived. It waB found that tho steam pipes kopt tho temperature of the box nt 103 degrees. A second hatch of 20 chicks appeared, sooty but healthy. Another hatch Is being prepared. Horn among the clanging noises of tho roundhouse, every chick so far discovered dis-covered Is deaf. Philadelphia Hecord. |