The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1867-08-08
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!. Timothy, that ;aiir yaller hen
.settin' agin, said Mrs. Hayes to he
!. SON. one morning at breakfast.
Z "Well, let.herset, = remarked Tim
, ,othy, helping himself to a. .larg
!. piece .ofTcheese, ST reckon @It.cal
stand it asslong aslshe can
"I do wish you. :?would try to be
little equinomical to cheese, Timothy
I've cut the very last Of my lot, an,
it's only. the first of,May. And nov
lass soon as you've done eating Iwan
you to go out. and break up that,hen
tShe's s settih on an Old ak and tw,
bricks now
"Ihppe she'll hatch EN-" return
ed Timothy.
~. - If she was set now, she'd hatcl
the5fourth week in May. It's a bat
sign; something alters happens artel
it: Stop giggling, Helen Maria; by
title time you get to be as old as yel
ma,ye'll see further than you do now
There was Jenkins folks, their top
knot hatched the last of May, ,and
Mrs. Jenkins, she had the conjunc.
ton of the lungs, and would have
died if they hadn't killed:a lamb and
wrapped her in the hide while,it: Wat
warm. That was all that saved her. :
With such o. startling proof of the
truth and the. omen before him, Tim.
Eothy finished, his breakfast<in haste
and departed for the barn, from
which he soonsreturned bearing bid
dy by the legs.
"What shall I do with her, mo-
ther ?-She'll get on again, and she's
cross as bedlam-she. skinned my
hands, and would: be the death Of me
if she could getSioose,
"Tve heer' mt ii. said it was good
plan to throw EN- up in the air, said
Mrs: Hayes. ssAunt Peggy, broke
one of setting only three times trying.
Spose you try it, ~
cup she goes, head or .tail!''
cried Tim, as he tossed the volcano
skyward. - .,zl;.,..
tsLaud: :omassy, 6 Exclaimed Mrs, H.
ssshess coming down III the pan of
bread that I set out on the, great rock
ta.siss Tim. Z i. sastFas ashgs that .Yea
G Down Nth ii the traitors, up with
the stars" sang, out Tim, elevating
biddy again. with something 1essrthan
a pint Of batter hanging to her feet:
:" Good gracious me, wuss and
wuss,' ',cricd Mrs. Hayes, and Tim
agreed with her, for the hen hau
come down on the well-polished tile
of Esquire Bennett. who happened TO
be passing, and the digniied old, gen.
tleman Vas the father Of Cynthia
Bennett, the young lady with whom
Tim was seriously enamo7ed.
The Squire looked daggcrs, brush
ed off the dough with his handker-
chief, and strobe on in silence.
~" Yes, but it's going up: again, "
said Tim, spitefully seising the chuck
ing biddy and, tossing her at random
into the air. Biddy thought it time
to manifest her individuality, and
with q loud scream she darted against
the parlor window, broke through,
knocked down the canary cage,
and landed plump. in the silken lap
of Mrs. Gray, who was boarding
at the farm house.
Mrs. Gray screamed with horror
and starting up, dislodged biddy, who
Aew at her reelection in the looking
glass with an angry. hiss. f'he glass
was shattered and down came the her
astonished beyond measure, against
a vase of flowers, which upset, and II
falling knocked over the stand -disL
and deluged with water a pan OF drat
colored velvet slippers which Maria
was embroidering for her lover, MIR
James Henshaw.
Holen entered the room just as the
mischicf'had been done, and viewing
the ruin, at once laid it to her broth
er Timothy. She heard his steps be-
hind her, and the. unfortunate her
flung full into his face. -.
There was smothered oath, anc
the hen came back. with the force o
a twenty pound shot.
Helen was mad. Her eyes were
nearly put out with the feathery dus
and dough, and she went at Timothy
with a true feminine zeal. She broke
his watchguard in a dozen pieces
crushed his dickey and began ID: pul
his whiskcrs out by the roots, wher
suddenly she remembered that limo
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