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Show HEN GETS ELASTIC. Part Swallowed and Part on Claw Makes Locomotion Difficult. When Mrs David Schmid of Clayton Clay-ton went to the chicken yard to pick out a fat fowl for eating she discovered discov-ered one of her pullets walking Jerkily Jerki-ly backward, occasionally sldewl6o and In other ways acting contrary to all Mrs. Schmld's preconceptions or chicken conduct For lack of a better remedy she doused It with a bucket of water, which did mend matters, but rather added to the chicken's manifest physical physi-cal discomfort. Mrs. Schmid discovered that tho chicken had undertaken to swallow a rubber band, a difficult thing for a chicken to do under any circumstances circum-stances and more so when tho other end of the band is wound around its own fooL With one end of tho rubber band anchored in the hen's system, every step that Beck took was near to turn her wrong side out and wrong end front, which very thing would have happoned hat not Mrs. Schmid appeared ap-peared on the scene. A snip of tho shears ended the tension ten-sion The chicken got only half as much rubber as she had calculated on, but was very willing to let It go at tl.at |