Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-01-31
HEN AND THE JEW l
coNTRADIcTs ALL FAsLEs. q s
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
Boyle County Farmer Removes r nc
FROM Crop Of Chicken With Aii
OF Scissors, and Esg-Pro-
d.cer Receivers.

a Boyle county hen swallowed q
SboO diamond ring which the ow;.er
nao left lying on a table on a b:ck
porch. Tho incident indicates care
iessness In the ring owner and also
on the part of the hon.
Once upon = time a wise old roc. ar
scratched up a diamond in a muck
heap. but be did not swallow II. He
inspected 1t minutely and then re-
marked that whereas some rerscns
might esteem such things very highly,
no personally wouldn't give q gain
OF wheat for 4 bushel basket full of
them. II tho Boyle county hen had
oeen 20 wise AZ this rooster, which
Aesop or some other able writer tells
ABOUT. she would have saved herself
much suffering. But this Boyle COT nty
hen WAS a foolish bird. and she swiped
the jewelry.
When the loss was discovered. and
the heh also. with a guilty look on her
countenance and n suspicious bulge in
her craw, IL didn't require much Shcr-
lock HolmeE business to make a
shrewd surmisr as to the wherea bur ts
OF the ring. The hen WAS mildly but
nrmly requested to submit to n search
and she haG such poor way Of re ,.
Ing that the investigation was ruIc "
under way Any remarks th-t .ns
might have felt like making under d!f.
lerent circumstances were repressad
perforce by suffocating sensation in
the glottls superinduced by abnormal
distenston OF the thorax The hon was
caught with the goods on her. The
ring WAS Enthusiastically inside OF tho
craW. Its owner could see its outline
and could feel II. He didn't feel Il as
strongly as the hen did. but he krew
Win 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 time-to revert to Ae.
sop-a man owned q goose which laid
a golden egg every day This IT, II
Wante~ TO get rich quick. and az 10
could not find any sort OF condition
powders that would hurry UP the lay.
ing process. hc decided to kill the
goose and poss' IS himself OF the gold
mine imIne !iatcly. II not sooner. The
goose was killed, and II 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 wns
kept busy dodGing the fool-kiiler for
| the rest Of his life
The Boyle county hon did not meet
the fate OF the goose that laid tho
golden egg. She had never laid any
golden eggs. but she had produced a
pretty good line Of the plain everyday
brand. II looked to her owner az n
she would be good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
tho family IeweIry kept OF the back
porch. 4 simple surgical operation
with pair Of scissors and q 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 little careless with theIr
Jewolry at times they are exceedingly
careful witt tfu<r '..ns.