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Show The Useful Hen. "Country constables who make a living arresting speeding automobiles wouldn't have half so much trouble stopping the scoijchers if they used a little Ingenuity," says one of the offenders. of-fenders. "Chains across the road and moving vans blocking the highway are all right to accomplish the purpose, but they're cumbersome. My idea for causing a prompt slow-up is to scatter : a lot of grain in a road and turn a lot of hens loose. They would block the road all right, and if there's one thing that will make a chauffeur slow up It's a hen. Dogs are bad enough, but a hen always runs the wrong way, and if the machine is going at any speed usually ends up under tie wheels. Hitting Hit-ting a hen will sometimes throw the front wheels out of line and cause the car to swerve, so drivers almost invariably inva-riably slow up and give poultry a chance to get out of the way. A hen speed trap is a great idea, to my way of thinking, and. of course, if one of the birds were killed the cost could I easily be added to the driver's fine." |