Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-24

Gated man nor polished man, though
claim to have o son that is both of said
things, but I hate to have rooster crow
over me because he has had better advan-
tages and better breeding than have. So
there was no love lost between us, as you
can see.
Directly noticed that the hen began to
have spells of vertigo. She would be
standing in corner Of the hen retreat, re-
mont, Ohio, when all at once she would
"fall senseless on the earth, and there lie
prone upon the sward," to use the words Of
q great writer, whose address has been
mislaid. She would remain in this COMFY
toes condition for between five minutes,
perhaps. Then she would rally q little,
slowly pry open her large mournful eyes,
and seem to murmur, "Where am II"
could see that she was evading the egg
issue in every way and ignoring the great
object for which she was created. With the
ability TO lay eggs worth from 81 to 1915
per dozen delivered on the cars, I could
plainly see that she proposed to wrap up
this great talent in napkin and play the
Henry, that was mad. made large
rectangular affidavit in the inner temple Of
the horse-barn that this poker-dot hen
should never live to say that had sent her
to the seashore for her health when she
was eminently fitted by nature to please the
public with her lay.
I therefore gave her two weeks to decide
on whether she would contribute few of
her meritorious articles or insert herself
into chicken pie.
She still continued naughty to the last
moment. So did her pardner, We there
fore treated ourselves to SO dinner in
April.
then got some expensive eggs from the
effete East. They were not robust eggs.
They were layed during time of great de-
preston, judge. So they were that way
themselves also. They came by express, and
were injured while being transferred at Chi
cago. No one has travelled over that line of
railroad since.
do not say that the eggs were bad, but
say that their instincts and their inner life
wasn't what they ort to have been.
In early May bought one of these inky-
baters that does the work of ten setting
hens. I hoped to head off the hen SO fal
as possible, simply purchasing her literar,
efforts and editing them to suit myself.
can not endure the society of low-brei
hen, and a refined hen seems to look dowr
on me, and so 1 thought if could ge
one OF these ottymatic inkybaters I coult
1
troll, and if the blooded hens wanted to q
to the sanitarium and sit around there will
their hands in their pockets while the grea
hungry world of traffic clamored for NOR,
spring chickens fried in butter they nigh
do SO and be doggoned.
Thereupon bought one of the medium
size, two-story hatchers and loaded it witt
) eggs. In my dreams could see LON
procession of fuzzy little chickens march
ing out of my inkybater arm in arm, ever
! day or two. while my bank account swelle'
. up like deceased horse.
l was dreaming one Of those dream
: night before last at midnight's holy hour
when WAS rudely awakened by q gallo
> Of cold water in one Of my ears. I aros
in the darkness and received squirt Q
cold water through the window from on
ever watchful and courageous fire depart
ment. Iopened the easement for the pur
pose of thanking them for this little demon
; stration, wholly unsolicited on my part
when I discovered the hennery was i
flames.
I went down to assist the department
forgetting to put on my pantalOons as
my custom out of Difference to the usage
of good society. We saved the other build
. . ings, but the hatchery is a mass of smol
!. dering ruins. So am 1.
1t seems that the Kerosene lamp winch
kept burning in the inkybater for the pun
!, pose of maintaining an even Temperature
and also for the purpose of showing Il
Q they should hatch out in the night, ha
torched up and ignited the hatchery, SO
speak.
1 see by my paper that we are importir
!. 200, 900, 900 Of hens eggs from Eurol
every year. It'll be 3O6,OOO,OOO next ye
so far as I'm concerned, Henry, and ye
can bet your little pleated jacket on it, to
g if you want to.
:, To-day I send P. o. order No. 1893
+ for $3.50. I agree with the Bible, tn
s "the fool and his money are soon parted
Meas.