The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-07
A RELIGIOUS HEN.

THE HEN THAT WENT TO CHURCH AND DID HER
| DUTY, AND WHAT CAME OF HER TALKING
| ABOUT IT.
| Quite a disturbance occurred in Western
church lew Sundays since, the circumstances Of
which are as follows Rev. Mr.. Moody was lust
beginning his sermon, and had uttered the
words, Brethren, wish to direct your attention
this morning to the fourth verse Of the twentieth
| chapter of st. :" when hen emerged from
the recess beneath the pulpit. AS she had lust
laid an egg, she interrupted Mr.. Mo dy to an
nounce the fact to the congregation and he
| stopped as she walked into the aisle screeching.
''Kuk kuk kuk toxic! Kuk kuk kuk toxic |" The
minister contemplated her for moment and
voice seemed to provoke her to rivalry, and 80 she
put on five or six pounds of steam to the square
inch, and made such racket that the preacher
stopped again and said:
VIII Deacon Grimes please remove that dis
graceful chicken from the meeting house?"
The deacon rose and proceeded with the lob.
be tirst tried to drive her toward the door, but
she lodged HIM, and still cackling vigorously.
got under the seat in the front pew. Then the
deacon seized his umbrella and scooped her out
into the aisle, after which he tried to "shoo"
her toward the door, but she flew into a pew,
hoped over the PARTITION came down into the
opposite pew and in the aisle, and then few over
into the middle aisle again, making noise like
steam planning mill. The deacon did not like
10 climb over after her, so he went round, and
just as he got into the side aisle the hen flew
over into the middle AISLE
Then the boys in the gallery laughed, and the
deacon began to grow red in the face At last
Mr. Blnns came out of his pew to help, and both
he and the deacon made rush for the chicken
from opposite directions. Then she flew up
with wild cuck. to the gallery and perched on
the edge, while she gave excited expressions to
her views by emitting about five hundred cackles
a minute. The deacon flung hymn book at her
to scare her down again, but he missed her and
hit Bill Jones, a sunday school scholar, in the
eye. Then another boy in the gallery made a
dash at her, and reached so far over that he fell
on Mrs. Miskeys bonnet, whereupon she said he
was predestined for the galtows. The crash
scared the hen, and she flew over and roasted on
the stovepipe that ran along just under the cell
ing, fairly bowling with fright.
In order to bring her down, the Deacon and
Mr. Blnns both beat on the lower part of the
pipe with their umbrellas, and about 40 feet of it
came down with crash, emptyipg barrel of |
SCOT over the congregation. There were women |
IN that congregation who went home looking as
II they had been working in coal mine, and |
wishing they could stab Deacon Grimes without |
being hanged for murder. The hen came down |
with the stove-pipe, and as she flew by Mr. |
blnns he made dash at her with his umbrella |
and knocked hole through sis pane of glass; |
where upon she landed in the street and hoped |
of clueking insanely. Mr.. Moody adjourned the |
congregation. They are going to expel the owner
'f that hen from the church when they discover
lis identity