Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-02-23
HEN AND THE JEWEL
coNTRADtcTO ALL FABLES, DOES
CONDUCT or THIS FOWL.
Boyle County Farmer Removes Ring
From Crop Of Chicken With Aid
OF Scissors, and Eao-Pro-
Queer Receivers.

A Boyle county hen swallowed
$500 diamond ring which the owne,
had left lying on a table on n back
porch The incident indicates care
iessness In the ring owner and also
on tho part Of tho hen.
Once upon q time a wise old rooster
scratched up Q diamond In a muck
heap, but he did not swallow It He
inspected It minutSly and then re.
marked that whereas some persons
might esteem such things very highly,
no personally wouldn't give a grain
OF wheat for a bushel basket full of
them. II the Boyle county hen had
been 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 foolish bird, and she swiped
the Jewelry.
When tho loss was discovered, and
the hen also. with a guilty look on her
oountsnance and a suspicious bulge II,
her craw, II didn't require much Sher.
lock Holmes business to make
shrewd surnise as to the whereabouts
OF the ring The hen was mildly but
nrmJ requested to submit to a search
and she had such poor way of refus.
Ing that the investigation was quickly
under way Any remarks that she
might have felt like making under diff
ferent circumstances were reprcsssd
perforce by a suffocating sensation H.
me g!ottis superinduced by abnormal
dlstension OF the thorax. The hen was
caught with the goods on her The
ring was Enthusiastically inside of tho
craW. Its owner could sec its outline
| and could feel II. He didn't feel II az
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 1t.
Once upon a time-to revert To Ac
sop-a man owned n goose which laid
golden egg every day. This man
wante" 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, II 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.
over after. but the goose-slayer was
| kept busy lodging the fool-kiiler for
the rest of his life.
The Boyle county hen did not meet
the fate Of the goose. that laid the
| gol!en egg. She had never laid any
golden eggs, but she had produced a
pretty good line Of the plain everyday
brand. It looked to her owner AZ II
she would he good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
the family tewelry kept OF tho back
| porch. a simple surgical operation
| with a pair Of scissors and n needle
and thread solved the problem. The
| ring was recovered and the hen Is re
covering
There Is not much chance to ring In
a moral here or to ring out one. "Haec
fabula docet" doesn't apply because
the story is not fable. II may be
taken. however, as an illustration Of
the fact that while Boyle county farm.
ers are a little careless with their
jewelry ut times they are exceedingly
careful With = ~ us.