Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-04
Hen AND The JEWEL
coNTRADicTS ALL FABLES, DOES
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
soyle County Farmer Removes Ring
From creP CT Chicken With Aid
OF Scissors. and Eas-Pro-
Queer Receivers.

Poy'e COUNTY hen e-.,nowod
50 U diamond ring which the owner
had left lying on table on q back
porch. The incident indicates care
lessness In the ring owner and also
on the part of the hen.
Once'upon time wise old rooster
scratched up q diamond In a muck
heap, but he did not swallow it. He
inspected 1t infinitely and then re.
marked that whereas some persons
might esteem such things very highly
ne personally wouldn't give a gran.
OF wheat for bushel basket full o.
them " the Boyle county hen har'
been rs wise as this rooster, whic.
Aesop or some other able writer tells
about. she would have saved hersel,
mn"h suffering. But this Boyle county
hen was foolish bird, and she swiued
the iewelry.
When the loss was discovered, and
the hen also. with guilty look on her
conntenance and a suspicious bulge H.
her craw, II didn't require much Sher
lock Holmes business to make n
shrcwd surmisc as to the whereabouts
or the ring. The hen was mildly but
tirmly requested to submit to a search
ana 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
Ierent circumstances were repressed
perrorce by suffocating sensation In
me. CLOTHS superinduced by nbnormal
distension of the thorax. The hen was
caught with the goods ON her. The
ring was Enthusiastically inside OF the
craw' It's owner could see its outline
and could feel 1t. He didn't feel It as
stronc'y rs the hen did, but he knew
with III The faith that may possibly
ne g." uired from the substance OF
thir%s hoped for and the evidence oil
mn '= Mt seen that the ring was
there ard that the hen was doing her
best to conceal 1t.
Once upon n time-to revert IN Ae
sop--a man owned a goose which laid
golden egg every day. This man
wShle" 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 imme lately. II moi sooner. The
goose was killed, and 1t appeared that
the mint had suspended operations al
| 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 fol
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. II looked to her owner az n
she would be good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
the family jewelry kept OF the back
porch. A simple surgical operation
with a pair of scissors AMI 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 ont one. "Haec
| fabula docct' doesn't apply because
the story Is not fable. II may be
! taken. however, as an illustration of
the fact that while Royle county farm.
ers are a little careless with their
jewelry at times they are exceedingly
careful witt 'i.h ms.