Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-01-03
HEN AND THE JEWEL
CONTRACTS all FABLES, DOES
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
Boyle County Farmer Removes Ring
from Crop of Chicken With Aid
OF Scissors. and Egs-Pro-
ducer Receivers.

A Boyle county hen swallowed a
$500 diamond ring which the owner
mad left lying on a table on q back
porch. The incident indicates care.
'essness In the ring owner and also
on the part OF the hen.
Once upon a time q 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 q grain
or wheat for a bushel basket full of
them. lf the Boyle county hen had
been as wise as this rooster. which
Aesop or some other abIe writer tells
ABOUT. she would have saved herself
much suffering. But this Boyle county
hen was foolish bird. and she swiped
the jewelry.
"hen the loss was discovered, and
the hen also. with a guilty look on her
countenance and a suspicious bulge in
her craw. II didn't require much Sher.
lock Holmes business to make a
shrewd surmise as to the whereabouts
OF the ring. The hen was mildly but
nrmly 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
ierent circumstances were repressed
peTforce by suffocating sensation In
the giottis superinduced by abnormal
distension Of the thorax. The hen was
caught with the goods on her. The
ring was Enthusiastically inside Of the
craW. Its owner could see it's outline
and could feel 1t. He didn't feel It as
strongly as the hen did, but he knew
with all the faith that may possibly
De 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 II.
once upon time-to revert to Ae.
sop-a man owned a goose which laid
golden egg every day. This man
wante" TO get rich quick, and as he
could not ind 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.
ever after, but the goose-slayer was
kept busy lodging the fool-kiiIer for
the rest OF his life.
The Boyle county hen did not meet
the 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. It looked to her owner as n
she would be good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
the femily jewelry kept OF the back
porch. A simple surgical operation
with pair Of scissors and a needle
and thread solved the problem. The
ring was recovered and the hen ia re-
covering.
There is not much chance to ring in
moral here or to ring out one. "Haec
fabula docet'' doesn't apply because
the story Ii 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 at times they are exceedingly
careful witt th-A' 'ssns.