Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-04
HEN MADE TROUBLE
CAUSED MUCH coMMoTloN IN
MEETING HOUSE.
Attempt to Eject clueking 6iddy
Caused Much Less of Temper and
Some Damage to the Clothes
of the Congregation.

of the congregation.
They have had more trouble at our
meeting house.
Last Sunday Rev. Mr.. Moody was
just beginning his sermon and had ut
tered the words, Brethren, l wish to
direct your attention this morning tc
the fourth verse of the twelfth chap
ter of Saint" when hen emerged
from the recess beneath the pulpit
AS she had just laid an egg, she in
terrupted Mr.. Moody to announce the
fact to the congregation; and he
stopped short as she walked out into
the aisle, screeching: "Kuk-kuk-kuk
kuk-te-ko! Observation-Disclosures
Mr.. Moody contemplated her for
moment and then concluded to go on;
but the sound of his voice seemed tc
provoke her to rivalry, and so she put
on a pressure of five or six pounds
to the square inch, and made such a
racket that the preacher stopped
again, and said:
"Will Deacon Grimes please re
move that disgraceful chicken from
the meeting mousse!
The deacon rose and proceeded
with the task. He first tried to drive
her toward the door, but she lodged
him, and still clucking vigorously, got
under the seat in the front pew. Then
the deacon seized his umbrella and
scooped her out into the aisle again,
after which he tried to "shoo" her
toward the door, but she darted into
pew, hoped over the partition, came
down in the opposite pew, aud in the
side aisle, making a noise like steam
planning mill. The deacon didn't like
to climb over after her, so he went
around, and just as he got into the
side aisle the hen flew over in the
middle aisle again. Then the boys
in the gallery laughed and the deacon
began to grow red in the face.
At last Mr.. Binns came out of his
pew to help, and as both he and the
deacon made a dash at the chicken
from opposite directions, she flew up
with a wild cluck to the gallery and
perched on the edge, while she gave
excited expression to her views by
emitting about 500 clucks a minute.
The deacon flung a hymn book at her
to scare her down again, but he
missed her and hit Billy Jones, Sun.
day school scholar, in the eye. Then
another boy in the gallery made a
dash at her, and reached so far over
that he tumbled and fell on Mrs. Mis-.
keys summer bonnet, whereupon she
said out loud that he was predestined
to the gallows.
The crash scared the hen, and she
flew over and roasted on the stove
pipe that ran along just under the
ceiling, fairly bowling with fright. In
order to bring her down the deacon
and Mr.. Binns both beat on the lower
part of the pipe with their umbrellas,
and at the fifth or sixth knock the
pipe separated and about 40 feet of
1t came down with crash, emptying
barrel or two of last winters SCOT over
the congregation.
There were women in the congrega-
tion who went home looking as if they
had been working in coal mine, and
wishing they could stab Deacon
Grimes without being hanged for mur.
der
The hen came down with the stove
pipe, and as she flew by Mr.. Binns he
made a dash at her with his umbrella
and knocked her clear through a SIS
pane of glass, whereupon she landed
in the street and hoped off clucking
insanely. Then Mr.. Moody adjourned
the congregation.
They are going to expel the owner
of that hen from church when they
discover his identity.-New York
Weekly.