Show guinea hen entertains a crowd in washington in this wide and expansive city a lone guinea hen is at S largo large unless she has been trapped by a wily huntsman from the frontier 0 of the district the hen ben gave an audience of four or five hundred people a grand afternoon and as a consistent and entertaining performer the little squawking fowl had many another matinee queen looking faded she reached the city in a coop X alond along with several other guinea hens and was given a prominent position on the sidewalk in the market house bouse region at some time during the the hen saw raw an opening for A bright young fowl and slipped through As she wriggled out to freedom the boss saw her and gave chase but the hen flew shrieking to the top of a wagon where the boss climb on account of his roly poly shape he detailed a shuffle footed colored boy to the chase the boy took a long pole with P a wire book at one end and began to fish for the bird the pole stirred up the guinea fowl and sent her to the boughs of a tree with pole in hand the boy shinned chinned the tree while the guinea fowl kept one lone eyo eye on him and edged out to the end of her bough as the pole and wire hook book came nearer the crowd was highly appreciative and began to shout directions the pole got within six inches of the bird the boy nearly dived through the tree to the sidewalk and the guinea sailed flapping and squawk ing to a higher limb ase ise goin ter git dat baby YR murmured the colored boy as he prepared to climb higher the limb sagged the bird yelled again and flew to another use tree while the ahe huntsman again all but tell fell headlong to the sidewalk ail bets in the crowd below were now on the bird she was a prime favorite and the boy was but an object of derision tle the colored boy oy slid down to the ground and cautiously attacked the next tree the hen was far up near the top and awaiting the enemy with complacence she had found a method of eluding the pursuer and seemed I 1 ready to adopt that course until nightfall and that is exactly what she did As soon as the boy got into that tree the bird flew into another and so forth and so on and at the time dusk fell the bird was sleeping somewhere in the open with her head under her wing |