The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-05-11

HA1tf uttdAt1k auIirtI cdlu IA
hep, Who was Walking about on the
0tker side Of The village from wksts
the circumstance WAS supposed to
Nave taken place, what i dreadful
atBl took. place, in our house last
shall Aot be able 70 sleep
riofe, am afraid, But It
naf thing that the mossarc
5I.any Side |. !
4 ln She aegan to state.that
4 se 6E all the other fowls
|eris stledhp the night before, and the
.Pravest Of their dufenders had drop
ped their combs fson fear vlts IS
true asYnn.lire ~ Z.
stol lno
facts Of @hich-wers believed to have
occurred on the opposite side Of the
villages The sun'had already been
down sometime; and allithechickens
began to hyup on. their roost. One
Of them was'a young hen, She had
beautiful white feathers and short
Ilegs;she laid eggs as regularly asher
sisters, and'was as respectable as any
individual in the whole hen. house.
While sitting quietly, she picked
about her wings a little, and one of
her beautifulwhite feathers fell down
on the floor.
When shesaw it she SAID. ut seems
to me, that the more | pick myself
the more beautiful grow" She on
ly spoke in sport. She was very
handsome, but she never grew proud
about it; indeed she seldom thought
oft. She wasver witty, and only
said what she did, to make q good
hearty laugh all through the house.
Then, she went to sleep. She slept
soundly because she had been good
all day, Bg .,..
II became very, very dark. One
hen sat beside another and slept, and
all were asleep except certain one
whose name i will not, here repeat,
She had heard, and she had not
heard, But she was pretty sure that
she had heard some one say that if
yon want to become very pretty, you
must, peck yourself great deal. So
nothing would do. but she must tell
II 70 her neighbore I. ~. VI. . |, III,
'' Makeup, Sake up shg Whisper;
.ed, s'didh't. You hear wha was. said
awhileago2 ! llmentidh .nobeayys's Us
name; but there is a certain proud.
hen in our. house, Who says she
makes it a habit to peck herself SO
that her feathers may fall out, and
she may become more beautiful ali
the time. Such a hen ought to be
despised by every one in our whole
city" e
Right over the hens and chickens;
and close under the roof, was a pair
of old owls with their young ones
That family were noted for their
sharp ears, and they heard some one
whispering about a certain young
hen. They rolled their great eyes
around, and the old mother owl said
to her little children:
"Did you hear what was said be.
low us few moments ago?p'
""No, mother" they replied, Eve
were almost asleep"
SWELL, I'll tell you. A certain hen
has pccked out fifty of her white
feathers, and Gays she is going to
keep doing it till she has pecked out
three hundred. She does it because
il makes her prettier / can't keep
such an absurd thing as that to my.
self 1t ought be known"
"Takc care, Children" said the old
fowl father, II think there is some
mistake about it,"
81 shall tell it to my neighbors,
anyhow" spoke theold mother. And
then she few out. Dreadful! dread.
full" she cried, as she came up to the
front.door of the pigeon-house.-
"Have you heard the news? Dread.
full! We have hen in our house
who has pulled all her feathers out
because she says it makes her hand.
some. She will freeze to death, if
she's not dead already. Dreadful!
It's as true as you live"
"Where? where?" cried a few of the
pigeons. 8
In our house. ] have as good as
seen the affair myself. One can
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