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Show WHERE SHE MADE THE MISTAKE. Mrs. Jack Frost's Experience as a Chicken Raiser. "Yes, farming Is all very eaBy," the farmer said. "Any city person could make a success of it at the first gooff." go-off." He sneered at his throe girl board ers from Chicago in order to show thai he had spoken In bitter Irony. "Mrs. Jack Frost," he resumed, "took the farm next to mine one year Being from the city, she thought she would show us country people a thing or two about real farming. She began be-gan on a chicken yard. "It was a fine yard. Pretty soon a hundred eggs hatched out. There was half hens and half roosters. Mrs, Jack Frost, before sailing for Europe, separated the two eexes, and, killing all the roosters, she 6ent them to her friends. A fine lot of 6prlng br'llora they made they were no bigger than squabs. "But when Mrs. Jack Frost got back from Europe, a strange eight bei cnlcken yard presented. It was nothing noth-ing but young roosters young roosters roos-ters crowing, young roosters swagger ing about, while here, with flying feathers and squawks and blood, a terriblo fight went on, and there, disregarded dis-regarded by all. lay the corpses o! brave birds slain in single combat At sunrise you could hear tho crowing crow-ing of those roosters all over th county. "Poor Mrs. Jack Frost understood the theory of chicken raising all right; only, In separating the young birds, she mistook the males for the females and vice versa." |