Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-02-01
HEN AND The JEW [
coNTRADIcTs ALL FABLES, c IS
CONDUCT OF THIS FOWL.
Boyle County Farmer Removes Rns
From Crop Of Chicken with Aid
OF Scissors, and Esa-Pro-
ducer Receivers.

poJio SOnnty men SwailOwed q
5000 diamond ring which the ow:er
mad left lying on table on a back
porch. The incident indicates care
iessness In the ring owner and also
on the part Of the hen.
once upon time a wise old roos Ter
scratched up q diamond IN a muck
neap, but he did not Swallov it. He
inspected 1t minutely and then re.
marked that whereas some persons
might esteem such things very hiEhly,
ne personally wouldn't give a grain
OF wheat for bushel basket full Of
them. II the Boyle county hen had
oeen rs wise as this rooster, which
Aefop or some other able writer tells
about. she would have saved herself
much suffering. But this Boyle cornty
hen was foolish bird, and she swired
the jewelry.
When the loss was discovered, and
the hen also. with 4 guilty look on her
countenance and a suspicious bulge in
her crav, II didn't require much Sber.
lock Holmes business to make a
snreWd surmise as to the whereabouts
or the ring. The hen was mildly but
nrmly requested to submit to n search
and she had such poor way Of rerus
Ing that the investigation was ruic ~
under way Any remarks thTt he
might have felt like making un,,er dIf
rerent circumstances were repressed
perforce by a suffocating sensation In
tne glottts superinduced by abnormal
olstenslon or 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 II 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 It.
once upon a time-to revert to Ae-
sop-a man owned a goose which laid
golden egg every day. This man
Wanteu to get rich quick, and as ne
could not find any sort Of condition
powders that would hurry up the Law
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-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
brand 1t looked to her owner as II
she would be good for several years
laying II her life could be saved and
the family jewelry kept OF the back
porch. 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 10 not much chance to ring I'm
moral here or to ring out one. "Haec
fabula docet" doesn't apply because
the story is not a fable. II may be
takon, however, as an illustration OF
the fact that while Boyle county farm.
ers are little careless with their
jewelry at times they are exceedingly
careful wifi th4Ib ',Ans.