Show 7 1 1 atme I 1 va SETTING 1 A ROOST R I 1 awaa a 19 sparred purred BL bla 4 but it wat WAS 1 Ps I 1 c G to todo Hon worle i I 1 41 at alizon tiza of bumford had canvaS uv assed ed I 1 the town ta in vala vain from enato end in search 6 of a hen to iet ae ll 11 when ye lie I 1 haarde that an old darkey on tae ie Bostoni Providence nee and newport road had bad a ir great bat deal of set setting tivi stock As aa this waa just what whal whalie be he wanted ha lost no time la in huni hunting iiii afa hf m up he found E the a 6 od d man building alien a sen t e rear ma i oali ofa his reald residence 12 ca A coff h he 1 asad asked by bj way zif of broach the subject how many hens he hid had setting a three ire 0 hens a and n di a rooster boss bosa 11 aad 1 a which Is 1 inquired Inqui the poultry coultry man thinking lie had not hard straight r 0 A rooster er 1 11 replied replie il the darkey seeing the look t on his Td 11 es f face he took look W him im into a low building and sure suie enough thor there q i sat a hai attee IRi ahma r rooster 66 star calmly tov eria g t twenty T en ty eggs on one side of him sal sak two hens and on theother the other a third hoa the rho visitor seeing how chow stately the rooster sat sa t secretly fe solved to got gat sone some of 0 the dar darkens kc 31 8 eggs and hatch haich out ou t is a lot of roosters on being asked aha wh the athe did when the rooster r woul dat sit bit any longer lodger the darkey replied dat ar roes rooster adif done bound to set se pointing verneath thebon the box the box the visitor wo was i surprised tc cand both of odthe the roosters logs legs th rouA fl holes in the b boi the black rascal li biad ad actually bored holes through the b box x and tied the roosters legs un I 1 dern lar aatU neath oflas he said the rooster was donz doas bound to set iet 11 inquiring into this matter the R uma d min man jound found that the darkey dg had four fensand one three of the hens heas were settin setting gand and the tha other was laying the darkey finding the eggs of I 1 the he hen n ing quite ast fast decided to lot up ozi on feeding the rooster corn and make him hatch a sock of en chickens ickens |