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Show " " id Miss Hen, -Cluck, cluck cluck, b wh)Kl g myself." eUlcked, every J-aUucksiistening nearby mked. automo- -XrtrMrBoo-t.r.who was- bile1 asked Mr. n first one able to speak haye "And pray te I. hw ,d have done such a thing? , you rUQ "I0? Icolld you have P,Id tVeif; They say tney cost a great deal of none';" Hpn ..TOu all think "Ah," said Miss Hem j I am very foolish but am n ,ndeed I am not fo I yt, 1 flm very senile. I kno had aQ aifVhr wanted one. I a'eiienrhusiness head Cor a hen." ini-pd at Miss The other creatur s loo Hen in surprise. She hao aCwVo. 'Yet they o'uXt1 understand how M;ss Hen could say such things if she diun mean some of them. "Yes, how could you have done such a thing?" asked Mrs. White Hen. -Yes do tell us too where you wou a have driven if you had got one, said Miss White Hen. "And who would have run it for you. I'd like to know that too, just as Mr. Rooster would," said Red Top, the leading rooster in the barnyard. "Oh I don't see, either, how you could have paid for It," said Mrs. Grav-and-White Hen. "How did you think you could have paid for It?" asked Mrs. Brown Hen. "Yes, tell us that," said all the hens. "And they cost so much money," said Red Top. "Such a great, great deal of money, j cock-a-doodle-do," said Mr. Rooster. "Well, for the hen life of me," said Mrs. Brown, "I don't see how you could have thought of doing such a thing unless you were right out of your hen mind." "I'm sure I don't understand," said Mrs. White Hen. I know I couldn't Hens Could Run Their Own. afford one and I don't think Miss Hen has more to spend than I have. "I don't see how she could have afforded af-forded what I couldn't afford." "Tell us," said Mr. Rooster. "Tell us," said Red Top. "Tell us," said the other hens. "You have asked me a great many questions," said Miss Hen, "and as I cannot answer them all at the same time, I will answer each one separately." sep-arately." She cleared her throat and began. "How could I have done such' a thing? I would have bought the automobile auto-mobile with money I cun earn and earn easily too. There! The first answer !" Miss Hen clucked delightedly Every Ev-ery creature In the barnyard was looting looti-ng at her. It made her feel very important. "The second question; who would tave run it for me? Well, ladies run their own automobiles. ncus con run their own and have th Ze their own size. "The third question asking me where I could have gone can easily be swered by saying that I would have gone about the countryside sell Tnt eggs to different farmer , wherever ? could have made the most money T is the man thin? witi, owners. It cost, ,aUtomob" tosts so mud, trt . eggs. They go un ,n . SP"hlK be despised and I f. Pr lun by other folks rbnest0teJ' at eK'B:s0eiliIng,nhean0ney-Wilk1 An ""Beer XrU"d reV-Because," reV-Because," i,m mi . too common. ?, ,;,3t U' are ni-v time doing not " ,r"''e U ld dust!" nthinK but stirring up |
