The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-29
A Nuisance.

Keeping hens In q thickiy settled town,
where the owner has perhaps aquarter Of an
acre Of ground aud no inclosure at all for the
fowls, which must roam at large picking up
. precarious living upon neighbor's premises
Ia curious illustration OF excessive liberty
and unblushing intrusiveness.
One cannot plant q tree or shrub but its
life 10 Immediately in jeopardy through the
industry Of the neighbors fowls determined
to dig 1t up. A delicate plant or vine has
no chance at all, and q bed OF ANIMALS or
greenhouse plants set out for summer bloom
is luxury not TO be thought OF, unless you
haye the leisure to stand guard from day
light till dark for hens do not wait for any sey
en- O'Clock whistle to begin their days work.
The donkeys on BetseY Trotwood's green
did not return to their grazing with greater
persistence than these vsgrant hens Therr
is no encouragement in their make up. The
insurance agent, nghtniDg-rod itinernant
and professional beggar might take lessons
In importantly from these smallbrained
miners. The bsrnyard fowls viewed from an
esthetic point may be not an unpleasant
feature Of the rural landscape It's habitual
cheerfulness and inveterate good-nature is
. sermon In itself. and its gratitude a re-
proach to human discomfort But this being
compelled to make q constant study of the
habits aud proclivities OF the despoilers OF
your lawn the pirates that prey upon the
wreck Of all your Horticultural efforts, the
growing and cackling vampires that disfgure
your door steps, Ia an improbable diversion
when you have no time for II and have q null
titude OF things you must do.
1t is q monstrous imposition on a neigh
borhood to turn loose upon their yards and
gardens lot of dirty and destructive crea-
tares that you cannot fence against or keep
away, or protect your property from their
depredations.
A notification Of the injury they are doing
makes no perceptible impression. note of
warning Is treated with like indifference.
proposition to treat those hens rs wild ami
mails and bag them IL met with q demand for
their value and not q common value either.
Their paternal ancestor was q regular fight
ing game cock worth four or i've dollars and
the chickens have all like fabulous value
and II you take the law into your own hands
and slaughter those irrepressible fowls you
are in danger OF having bill for damages
presented that would soon extinguish your
claim to that little quarter Of an acre which
you are supposed to own, and so living In q
land In which all men are accorded the In
alienable right to liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness, you Ind yourself suddenly de-
prived Of the right to the pursuit Of happi-
ness by an unregenerste brood ofgame chick
ems who through savage instinct destroy every
livingthing and make themselves nuisance
generally. y how you wish the rocks and
mountains 20 iy sf and fall upon those hens
and bury them out of your sight, or for some
enterprisine street gamin to go cunning on
your premises when you are away, or for 9
streak of chain lightning to waltz around
and singe the hair of those insufferable bipeds
which you can neither coax or frighten into 9
human regard for the rights OF others.