Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-02-18
HEN AND The JEWEL
coNTRApIcTS ALL FABLES, DOES
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
Boyls County Farmer Removes Ring
From Crop Of Chicken With Aid
OF Scissors, and Es0-Pro-
ducer Receivers.

ooyN county hen swallowed
$500 diamond ring which the owner
had left lying on a table on h.ck
porch. The iEc!ds Mt IL icates cIiC
lessness In tho ring owner and also
on tho part of the hen.
Once upon q time a wise old rooster
scratched up q diamond in q 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.
he personally wouldn't give a grain
or wheat for a bushel basket full of
them. II the Boyle county hen had
been as wise az this rooster, which
Assop 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. .sr
When the loss was discovered, and
the hen also. with q guilty look ON her
countenance and q suspicious bulge Ia
her craw, 1t didn't require much Sher.
lock Holmes business to make q
shrewd surmise AZ to the wherea bouts
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
rerent circumstances were repressnd
perforce by sufrocating sensation ir
the g!ottis superinduced by abnormal
diStersion 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
anu could feel II. He didn't feel It MS
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 tho 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 a goose which laid
golden egg every day. This man
"snte~ 10 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. If not sooner. The
goose was killed. and It 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-kiiler 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
braid 1t looked to her owner as II
she would be good for several years
laying il her life could be saved and
the family jewelry kept of the back
porch. A simple surgical operation
with a pair Of scissors and 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 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 at times they are exceedingly
careful witt 'r.d '-.ns