The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-11
Setting a Hen.

| MeeSter lei1TS II see dot most eiferpody
wrides someding for de shiclen papers now
tags, and fought praps merpe | can do dot
too, so wride all apout vat dock blaze nit
me asht summer You know-oder uf you
! dond know, den dells you-dot Katrina
| (dot is mein wow und me, We keep some
| shickens for long dime ago, und Won tay she
| salt to me :-"Sockery IDIOT is men nance w
dond you put some of de aigs under dot old
plue hen and raise some shickensy | dinks
| she wants to safe" "Vell," | salt, "meppe |
guess will" So | picked out some uf de
pest aigs und dock um oud to de parn fare
de olt hen make her nesht in de side uf de
haymow, poud five OF six veet up. Now you
see nefer vas ferry pig up and town, but
vas booty pig all de way around in de mittle,
so koodn't reach up dill | vent und got d
parrel do slant on; veil | klmet me on dc
parrel, and ven my he'd risht up by the nesht,
dot old hen she gif Inc such bick dot my
nose runs all Offer my face nit plood, ind ven
| todge pack dot plasted old parrel he preab,
und vent town kershlam ply cholly, | didn't
tnk | koOd go inside a parrel pefOre; but
dere vas, und fit so dite koodn't get me
| oud etterway my fest vas pushed way up I'M
der my arm-holes.
Ven | fount | vas dite shtuck, | holler,
Katrina Katrina p und ven she koOm and
see me shtuck in de parrel up to my arm
holes, nit my face all blood an aigs, by chol-
~, she shust lait town on de hay und laft und
latt till got so mat | salt: "Vot you lay
dere und laf like a olt WOOL, Ell? Wy dond
you koom bull me oud?" IND she sat up
und sait,-"Oh wipe off your chin, und pull
your fest town." den she lait back und laft
like she voot split herself more as ever. Mat
as vas, l fought to myself, Katrina, she
shbeak English booty goot, but | only salt,
nit my greatest dignitude, katrina, will you
bull me oud dis parrel?" ind she see dot
look booty red, so she salt :-"Of course WILL
Sockery :" den she laidt me und de parrel
town on our side, und | dock holt de door
sill, und Katrina she bull on de parrel, but de
first bull she mate | yelled: "Donner und
bitten! sthop dat, by cholly, dere is nails in
de parrcl~ You see de nails pent town ven
| vent in, but ven | COON oud dey schticks in
me all de way rount.
Veil, to make short shtory long, told
Katrina to go und dell naper Hansman to
pring saw and saw me dis parrel off veil
he koom und he like to shblit himself NIT laf
too, but he roll me Offer und saw de parrel all
dc way around off, | git up nit hat parrel
round my waist den Katrina she say
"Sockery, vait u little till | get u battern of
dot new oferskirt you hat on" but didn't
salt wort. | shust got a knife oud und vttle
de hoops off und shling dot confountet old
parrel in dot voot pile Pimeby, ven koom
in dc house, Katrina she salt, so soft like
"Sockery, dond you goin to but some aigs I'M
der dot olt plue hen?" Den | salt, in my
deepest voice, Katrina, uf you utfer say dot
to me again I'll get a pill from you, help me
chminy gracious" ind | dell you, she didn't
say dot any more! Vell Mr. Verbs, ven
shtep on a parrel now L don't shtep on it,
git on poX.
Very drooly, yours,
SoCKERY KADAuCUT.