The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1910-12-08
HEN AND THE JEWEL
coNTRAolcTs ALL FABLES, DOES
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
Boyle County Farmer Removes RIno
From Crop Of Chicken With Aid
OF Scissors, and Eee-Pro-
Queer Receivers.

Boyle county hen swallowed
sooo diamond ring which the owner
had left lying on a table on back
porch. The incident indicates care
iessness In the ring owner and also
ON the part of the hen.
Once upon a time a wise old rooster
scratched up a diamond In a muck
heap. but he did not swallow It. He
inspected 1t minutely and then re-
marked that whereas some persons
might esteem such things very highly.
ne personally wouldn't give a grain
OF wheat for a bushel basket full Of
them. II the Boyle county hen had
oeen as wise as this rooster, which
Aesop or some other able writer tells
about, she would have saved herself
much suffering But this Boyle county
hen was a foolish bird. and she swiped
the iewelry.
When the loss was discovered, and
ne hen also. with a guilty look on her
Hountenance and suspicious bulge in
her craw, 1t didn't require much Sher.
lock Holmes business to make n
shrewd surmise as 10 the whereabouts
or the ring. The hen was mildly but
hrmly requested to submit to a search
and she hal such poor way of refus.
ing that the investigation was quickly
under way. Any remarks that she
might have felt like making under diff.
'erent circumstances we're repressed
perforce by suffocating sensation In
The CLOTHS superinduced by abnormal
cistension of the thorax. The hen was
caught with the goods on her. The
ring was Enthusiastically inside of the
craw. Its owner could see Its outline
and could feel It, He didn't feel It as
strongly as the hen did. but he knew
with all the faith that may possibly
be acquired from the substance OF
things hoped for and the evidence OF
things not seen that the ring was
there. and that the hen was doing her
best to conceal It.
once upon time-to revert to Ae
sop-a man owned goose which laid
4 golden egg every day This man
wanted to get rich quick, and as he
could not find any sort OF condition
powders that would hurry up the lay.
ing process. he decided to kill the
goose and possess himself of the gold
mine Immediately, If not sooner. The
goose was killed. and 1t appeared that
The mint had suspended operations at
about the same time. There was moth
ing doing in the golden egg line for
ever after. but the goose-slayer was
kept busy lodging the fool-kiIler for
he rest of his life.
The Boyle county hen did not meet
he fate OF the goose that laid the
golden egg. She had never laid any
golden eggs, but she had produced a
pretty good line of the plain everyday
brand. 1t looked to her owner as II
she would be good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
the family iewelry kept of the back
porch simple surgical operation
with a pair OF scissors and a needle
and thread solved the problem. The
ring was recovered and the hen is re
covering.
There Is not much chance to ring In
moral here or to ring out one "Haec
iabula docet" doesn't apply because
the story is not fable. 1t may be
taken, however as an illustration OF
the fact that while Boyle county farm
srs are little careless with their
iewelry at times, they are exceedingly
careful with their hens.