Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-23

the Chicago market by the hundred,
and back comes your check. | knew
you'd come. and SO I've had car
penter fix up 500 nests In the barn.
You've got d little money. and Ill put
some more with IL TO buy hundred
doves as a starter. know a chicken
buyer who'll get them for as at a very
reasonable price. He's rather struck
on me, but of course | wouldn't think
OF marrying u man In that business.
Oh. the money will Just roll In after q
bit"
But II it's so profitable why isn't
everyone around here in it?" asked
Miss Jennie.
Lack OF energy and ambition. dear.
They are the slackest people around
here you ever heard OF. They haven't
the energy to pick up a dollar In the
road. They might be millionaires now
II they had gone into the squad bust
ness FIVE years ago"
The farm was Isolated and seemed
to be run down, but the girl from the
east aroused herself TO action, and In
the course of three or four days the
chicken buyer came along and ar
engagements were made with him for
the FIRST hundred doves To get squads
you must first get your doves. The
chicken man was a conservative man.
When Miss Jennie asked for his hon
est opinion about the SQUAD business
he reflected for several minutes be-
fore replying:
We'll. l will be honest with you and
say that you can't expect TO make over
$4,000 the first year. You have got to
get start. you know. After the doves
come to know what is required OF
them you can't keep track OF the
checks that will come tumbling In
from Chicago"
That settled any doubt. He was
paid Is cents apiece more than the
market price for his hundred doves.
and they arrived and were Gagged In
the barn. They arrived Just at dusk
one evening. and at daylight Miss
Jennie was out at the barn and climb
ing around in search of eggs. The
doves had slept instead OF laying.
4NOt an C6c as IN AtN hNAN III ~
days. and then the birds were al
lowed to soar about the farm. They
were a success at the soaring. but
when 1t came to eggs they took not
the slightest interest. After week
Miss Jennie and her cousin drove
seven miles to the village and con-
suited the druggist. He was a man
cd hnf this
sion he said that something must be
done without loss of time. He there
fore rushed behind his counter and
put up a prescription 70 be mingled
with a hot bran mash as soon as they
reached home, and charged one dollar
for the same. IT was duly mingled and
devoured, but still no eggs.
In the midst OF the anxieties the
chicken buyer came that way again.
He was given all particulars. and aft
err weighing them for half an hour.
and going out to look at the barn and
the doves and the landscape, he gave
it as his opinion the 100 doves were
pining for the so he had at his farm.
and with whom they were formerly
associated The so we're purchased
and delivered, but a week went by.
and not an egg appeared. Then Miss
Jennie Williams sat down on an olo
wagon wheel in the barnyard and
wept She wept because of the OBJ
durate doves-because Of her disap-
pointed plans-because of her quarrel
with Frank-because-be
And then some one patted her on
the head, and she looked up 10 find
the young architect smiling into her
eyes
"Oh, Frank, the doves won't lay"
she exclaimed as she rose to her feet.
And you aren't going to make
million dollars out Of sQuabs?"
Twelve lost all had"
And your little head Is not wise
enough to figure out why $50 doves
haven't laid an egg yet and never
will?''
"Ob, Frank"
Because they are male birds and
not used to it, Come into the house
and well talk about getting married
tomorrow and starting back home the
day after. Squads. my dear! Squads
are a snare and delusion compared
with matrimony;"