The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-21
A Hens Queer Brood.

A guest from the Red River, over the
Arkansas line, arrived in this city Satur.
day and took board at prominent hotel
Other guests, seated in the shade ON the
front, listened to the Red River strangers
stories of life in his native land. "Ahout
aligators," queried u gentleman, ~ learn
the business of hunting them is on the IN.
crease from what portion of the saurian il
the profit mostly derived?" "Fer's that's
CONSERVED the man replied, "all portions
IS good, The worries OF a big gator is worth
50. His hide is worth $40, and as to his
oil, thar amt no estimating the vally of
that. The gvurls is finding it betern apy
other top dressing. Hits already scented
with musk, and some folks say II makes
the hair grow Eastern you ken cut it Off.
This may be owing to the hairy element in
the greese, never baving had "A chance
under the thick skin Of the gnlor, and when
it gifts turded loose on g,ur,'s head il
sends the sprouts ho,ipg lik, era, grass
In melon patch; and then there is the
eggs"
Egg !"
Yes, eggs; what's the matter with you?"
What are Il Z eggs good fOi?" euunired
the hotel keeper, IN dstOnlshment.
They be goo for your noarders !" re-
piled tho lmperturbable traveller. Bet
tern the stale ones you mostly buy" Here
the traveller unused awhile and suddenly
broke into a roar OF laughter. Speaking
of gator eggs" he continued, reminds me
OF funny thing happened my wife. NV
boy Albert went down on Horsepin creek
and fetched home hat full of gator eggs
aud put EN- under a hen that was trying
to hatch sumthin outern a old door knob
and a bois dare apple. The hen was
awfully prouder them eggs, and she heated
her incubator to full steam and went to
setting about twenty mile hour. They
weren't long hatching-them gator eggs
weren't, and when the day come and that
mess OF ugly lizards come sprawlihg outern
the shells, the hen peeped under herself to
see what was up, or rather what was down.
May beso her feelings was like fellows on
the other eend of hard spree when the
monkeys begins to climb his breeches legs.
| II amt given us to know what reflections
! disturbes the full bosom of ailectionate
hen and how her heart yearns over her or
phan asylum, bought at Is cents dozen
and foisted on her tor her personal family,
1t is not so cruel to set hen on bought
eggs, provided they is hen eggs, for the
poor Critter thinks they IS her own, but
when 1t comes to making her the stepmoth.
err OF hat iull of Arkansaw aligators, hits
cruelty to animals and no mistake. My
wife was in the coop setting another old
pulet when the old foster hen of lizards
first discovered what kind OF offspring Heay-
en- had sent her. Wife says the cackliug
that poor hen sot up weren't the hopeful
music of triumphant hen matronhood she
says the poor oritter gave squawl such as
q ben gives when prowling postum climbs
the roost tree, and went from that coop
like she was riding cyclone on mission to
the west Wife never seed that hen any
more. She mighter concluded she had dis
graced the hen family and went and
drowned herself, but be that as ii may, wife
put them young gators in her apron and |
traded 'em to curiosity hunter fur enough
to git new gun and have got some left
now. What'll you drink ?"