The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-10-26
BY PRISCILLA LEONARD.

philosopher, and went off to dig the
potatoes.
Young Frank Evans station master,
ticket seller, telegraph operator and
freight and express agent of Milby
Junction, six miles away, thought
Dorothy the prettiest girl in the town
ship as she drove up 10 the platform
He had thought SO since they went
TO school together in pinafores.
Perhaps Dorothy knew it, too. At
any rate, she came to him prepared
TO rely upon his utmost assistance.
Frank, she began, as he hitched
Rex for her, do you ship many
crate5 Of poultry from here, or bar
rels OF dressed poultry?"
Yes, l ship a good many" said
Evans. why do you ask?"
I've just had all my white Leg
/ horns stolen-forty of them. Every
one round here is losing chickens.
! Now those chickens have to be mar
keted somewhere-and not around
/ here. It's fifty miles to the city,
which is the safest place to market
! them. If ! stole chickens, I'd freight
/ them down, dressed and packed in
! barrels. So / thought If anybody
! round here was doing the thieving-
| and the thieves, whoever they are,
take the local paper, and certainly
/ do know this part of the county as
| we'll as their hand - | might get
some hint from your shipments"
That's first rate idea" said the
| young man. But | don't remember
any special shipper of dressed poul-
! try in barrels. The Walter boys pack
that way, but ! guess we're not sus-
! pecting them! Mrs. Dixon sends a
barrel now and then. SO do the peo-
| pie on the Lawrence farm; that's
been an experimental poultry farm
for the last year. | hear they report
they lost badly through a raid by
the thieves two months ago. The
ElliOtts, over at Orwell, send dressed
poultry, too, but never very much
IL doesn't seem-"
NO, it doesn't" said Dorothy,
looking perpleXed. But these chick
ems have got TO get to market, Frank,
somehow. I've started to hunt this
county over till | find what's become
of them. guess I'd better drive to
the other stations up and down the
road. They'd be likely to choose a
stupid agent TO ship through, so !
don't wonder they keep away from
here"
Then she flushed at having paid
Frank a compliment, and Frank
flushed, too, with pleasure, for he
knew that his pretty schoolmate
never said things unless she meant
them. II put him on his mettle.
But see here, Dorothy, why do
you have to drive up and down the
road? What's the matter with my
telegraphing instead? Come in and
sit down, and III get you all the in
formation you wan. in half an hour.
So Dorothy sat and listened 10 the
clicking wires, and took some brief
notes on telegraph pad that Frank
pushed over TO her across the table.
Wagner, at Dorrance station, says
lhdN Nut Inv thtt ldl III StuuS a Dol-
rel now and then and a crate occa-
sionally. The Widow Ransom is the
heaviest shipper-sends both crates
and barrels. Jones, at Pond station,
says Hank Janeway ships a BARREL
sometimes; so does the Lawrence
farm. The Browns send crate now
and then-white Leghorns and Ply
mouth Rocks. Collins, at Pelham
Junction, says that Mrs. Robinson
ships more than anybody else, but
Jim Henry sends a barrel or crate
now and then, and so does the Law
renee people-Plymouth Rocks, most
ly. King, at Bellevue station, says
everybody sends in crates, except
barrel now and then from the Law
renee people and Sally Walker"
Frank leaned back and whistled
softly Dorothy smiled and pushed
the telegraph pad under his eyes
Five underlinings marked the name
Lawrence repeated in each OF the
FIVE reports from Milby, Dorrance
Pond. Pelham and Bellevue.
you clever girli" said Franz
You've got hold OF the right end. SO I.
honest poultry farm ever shipped !
that much TO the city, and through T.
five different stations in small lots
But supposing it's so, how are We 20
ing TO prove it? The man doesn't live !
who can identify an ordinary white |
Leghorn hen or Plymouth Rock pull /
let"
But the girl does" cried Dorothy. 4
triumphantly. Since day before /
yesterday can pick out any one Of /,
my forty Leghorns with absolute GER I
tainty, Frank. II dipped their I
legs. every one Of them. in a fast 4
black that won't come of, 50 that .