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Show No Longer Doubt as to Where the West Begins l Rhode Island red, the chicken goes into in-to the pot or pan for the wayfarer everywhere. ev-erywhere. The West begins where the chickens begin. Arth'ur Chapman wrote a poem, "Oul Where the West Begins." which will never sink Into oblivion. He wrote il in Denver, where it was published, so that Die conclusion may be drawn thai Mr. Chapman's West takes its initiative initi-ative somewhere near the Rocky mountain latitude; but westerners generally gen-erally place the beginning of the West much farther east than that ; and It was long regarded as including every thing beyond the Mississippi river. Perhaps a more definite line wouiri be where the Sunday chicken dinner begins, and that is distinctly in Mis souri, F. H. Collier writes, in the Si Clobe-Demncrat. To the eastward til" hot-flog monopolizes all roadside eat ing places every day in the week ; bui cross the l-'ather of Waters and you are in the Land of the Chicken Pinner. Pin-ner. Not only is it honored of the Sabbath day, but it sends up its fra grant and alluring fumes at any hour on any day in many locations. Leg horn, Shanghai, Plymouth Rock or |
