Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
Georgie's Cab

Paws got a Garden sints we mooved
Out here, but nav Says the only Thing
he raised SO Fur is trubble. The man
to be sea captun on the lakes, and If
we had Parrut they woulden't be
hardly emmy use trying to make it q
morrel Burd becoz when the captun
talks you can hear him nearly all
Around the naber Hood. About the
First thing we notust after paw Got
his erly crop in Was the Way the Cap
tun's chickens wouldn't let it come up
itself.
Paw went to the captun and Told
him about it. and the Captun sed it
must be Mistake. He told paw His
chickens didn't haft to Go way from
Home for THAR meals, and Every little
while you could hear Him say things
that showed He wasn't Christian, be-
tween his Other words.
When paw came Home he sent me
and Little albert to the store for Ten
sents worth of Fishen hooks and Lines,
and When we Got back he says:
81 don't never want to Take a mean
advantage of Dunn Creacher, but
captun it amt always the man who
Swairs the loudest That gets the big
gest Lump of shugger in his coffey."
So he cut the Fishen lines into about
twenty peaces and Put Hook on Each
end of Every peace. Then He baited
the Hooks with Worms and chunks of
Bred and other Things chickens like
pritty well and went out to do some
more planten in the Garden. Every
time he planted seed He would put a
Baited f1shen Hook in with it.
Then he went and Told the captun
he better keep his chickens at Home,
and the Captun sed:
"This is the Last time want you to
Come insultin me about My chickens.
Abuddy would think this wasn't Free
country WHARF people Gould raise
chickens If They wanted to, the Way
some people talk. Now shoe yourself
out Of here"
About a nour after that we herd a
good deal Of squawken in the Garden,
dhu w ACA VIC pCChCo OuS VIC cCCA L hV
captun's chickens There bizy scratchen
up Baited hooks and swallowing them
Like boarder eats when He goes
home for the Hollow days. Every little
while, when one chicken had swallowed
the Hook on one end Of String and
some other Chicken had the hook on
the other end of its Sistum they Would
start away kind of pulling apart and
Looking suspishus at Each other. and
pritty soon all but two or Three got
Hitched together.
Then trubble commenct. When one
chicken tried to fly over the tents it
would get jerked back by its partner
at the Other end of the Line, or else If
it Got over they would kind Of Hang
thare, One on each side, and pull and
scold about it, and brace their feat
against the boards And try to Back up.
Nav sed it made Her hart bleed for
the poor things, and Paw told Her that
was Becoz she was chicken harted,
only it Was probbubly the Chickens
gizzurds that was Bleeding.
Then he went Over where the Captun
was settin on his Frunt portch smoker,
and l went Along to see what hap
pened.
"Did you ever notus How burds and
chickens and such Things go around In
pairs" paw asst.
NO" says the captun. "Pve herd
some Birds take Their mates fer Life,
but neverpaid mutch Tenshun to it."
"Well," paw says, II don't no as
Chickens always mate For life, But I
guess most Of yours Have got into that
Habbut laitly."
"Say," the captun says, swairing a
Lot more, 'it's strange you can't quit
harpen on my Chickens. Some people
when they Get started on Subject al
ways run it in the Ground"
About that time the Captun's wife
came around from the Back of the
House and told him sumthing Seemed
to be the matter with the Chickens.
"Chickensv' yelled the captun. "Is
everybuddy crazy on the Chicken SUBJ
jeckt? Can't 1 hear about ennything
But Chickens emmy more? The next
purson says chickens to me I'm agoin'
toto"
But he had to stop Thare Becoz thay
was a Rush of blood to his he'd and
thot his face mite expload. Then he
went around to the Back yard to See
what the Trubble was, and when he
Got SO he understood how 1t Happened
Paw took me BY the Hand and we
Went Home.
After while when we Couldn't hear
the Captun saying ennything More
about it paw Went out to Work In the
Garden again, and Just as he bent Over
to plant things the Captun rose up
from Behind his Fents and turned the
Hose on paw. So paw Went to Grab up
a chunk Of durt to Thro at the Captun
and he Run q fishen Hook neerly thru
His finger.
The Captun's girl told our gurl they
Haven't had ennything but chicken to
Eat at thare house LATELY, but the
dockter says it'll be Too late to put in
A nuther crop when paws hand Gets
well.-Chicago Times Herald.
An Illustration.
An Irishman was telling me that