The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-06-25
A sAoACIous HEN.

grin Oh iinltiar recognition. Don
seem to know me, do YEP was in here
last fall and give yer some anccdote:
about some snakes down in my parts.
Remember -
"Yes," growled the city editor, al
recollcct you. All your snake stories
were lies, and We got letters from all
over town saying so. What do you
want now?"
"You don't tell me-" ruminatcd the
snake man smoothing his hat softly
"Lies, was they? Mebbc the parties as
writ to yer know'd more about them
snakes than me. P'rhaps what l come to
tell yer about my speckled hen with a
blue hackle is all lies, toos"
"What has she done ?"
"She's done more'n the snakes, and
il the snakes war lies that hens wopper
that's all can say" and he looked
deeply injured.
"rell us about her, anyway" said the
city editor.
"Ycr hcarn about the cat that hatch
ed chickens. | reckon. Well, my old
speckled hens been discountin' that cat.
She's hatched four brood Of kittens /;
one in each brood"
"Oh 60 home and sleep il of !" re-
commended the indignant city editor.
"Fact Four brood. and one to the
brood seen her gettin' restless and
scttcn around on things and tried fer to
knock her out of the idec. No Use
She'd set onto hot fiat iron but what
she'd set. Fust she hatched an old
milk pail into tin cups, and then she
squaited on some dough that was sot to
rise, and I'm slugged IL she didn't hatch
out dozen biscuit and then try to
learn'em to swim. | seen she was git
tin right broody, and says to the old
woman, says |, 'Mar, sumpin' must be
done for the spcckled hen with the blue
hacklc." Mar tumbled to the idcc, and
says she, 'Yer bet yer life?' So with
that we iigcred what we'd best do
While We was iigserin' she sot on load
o'cord wood, and I'll eat a grin,lstun il
it didn't come ont all sawed and split.
I'm tcllin yer this SO yer wont think the
kittens was unnatural. Well, mar and
me figgcred, and while We was figgerin
the speckled hen was fggcrin' too. She
hoped on to bar'l O. scrap iron, and
I'm drunk if she didn't wack out two
hundred papers o. tacks. We seen that
sumpin' had got fer to be done right off,
but before We hit unto the scheme, yer
can lick me il a tornado didn't take the
roof right off'n my house. or course,
yer know, We forgot the old hen few
days. Dog my skins il she didn't set
on the pump handle and hatch il into
toothpicks. Sure's yer born. Some.
how my reapin machine got under her
one night and the next mornin' il was
railroad spikes. Yer never seen moth
in like it. She was bent fer to set, I'll
tell yer. There was three hardshell
CLANS out in the yard and she sot on 'em
and hatched out Holsters. II she didn't I
I'm a liar"
"No doubt of 1t but how about the
kitten p
"Well, the men come to put 4 new
roof ON the house got there just before
dinner, and left their tools into the yard
| seen the old hen watchin' them tools,
but didn't think no harm. Just before
that"
"Never mind anything else. Come
down to the cats"
I" ist so. While We was at dinner seen
her explorin around, and didn't know
from what happened the day before"
"Drop that - said the city editor
sternly.
"Give US the four brood of cats, one
in brood"
"Well, the four workmen were at
dinner, and the old speckled hen with
blue hackle was nosin' around, and
says | to Mar, Mar"
"Out with those cats, quick I" and
the city editor took down a scythe. :.
Certainly. The tools was outside,
you know, four sets on 'em, in-what' S
this they carry tools in ?"
"A kit9"
"And that old spcckled hen sot on
them four kits, and IL she didn't hatch
out four hroods o."
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