Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-27

white and good-sIzed eggs and held
them out to view with:
Aren't they Just lovelyi"
They certainly are" was the reply.
Those ] get from my Leghorns could
be sold to Rockefeller for a quarter
apiece, but OF course I'm not in the
business for profit / send dozen q
day TO a hospital and eat the rest
You certainly have a beautiful flock
here"
/ but II they should turn out not to
be true Leghornsl"
+ 'T can decide that point In one min.
ute. Please catch me one. Now, then,
her eyes are wide open. II they close
up when blow in them you need no
longer doubt. It's teet they told me
Of in Leghorn. All ready-w-h-e-wl'
! "She closes her eyesl" joyously ex.
claimed the girl as she danced around.
"She does, Miss Fraiklin. and let me
congratulate you on possessing one OF
the very few focks of pure Leghorns
in America"
Thank you. shall be prouder than
ever of them now"
And now about the feed" said ME-
Hackett as he put on a wise look.
But please tell me what you feet
yours7"
''Um. Um. must look up the writ
ten instructions they gave me in Leg
horn and copy them off for you"
IT shall be so grateful to you'll"
"well?" querled Mr. Hackett's siG
ter-in-law as he returned with grii
on his face.
81 told you I'd do It."
you haven't been to Franklin's!"
ct have"
you didn't see Irenel"
Had a long talk with her"
IL can't believe It,"
But you must 1t was about Leg
horns"
"But how on earth do you know
anything about Leghorns!"
"Saw 'em at the chicken show few
weeks ago. Say. you've got to help
me out"
'Tf you've been lying to that girl"
"But there was no lying. mean
there was no such lying as that cor
respondent up in Connecticut sends In
to the daily papers every week or two.
You've got hens here. What do you
feed them on?"
"But they are not Leghorns," was
protested.
TITS all the same thing whether a
hen came from Leghorn or Kalama-
zoo. You feed them the leavfngs OF
the table, of course?"
Eyes, and ground food and prepared
food and peppers"
That's enough to win out on. I'm tc
go back in a day or two and tell heI
what the Leghorners feed them on
But you were never in Leghorn.
But I've been in Fall River, and It'll
the same thing"
"And you claimed to have a flock Of
chickens yourself, did your
HAD to-"
Suppose the young lady had asked
where you kept them?"
'T was all ready to answer In Cen
trail Park"
Fired Hackett, you'll come dow
with a very large bump!" was the pre-
diction of the sister-in-law, based or
what she thought she knew Of hel
own sex.
Does enc woman know another bet
ter than a man does? No.
Music, poetry, moonlight. babbline
brooks, setting suns, Joy or sorrow
will create bonds between human be
ings. Anything else? Nothing but
Leghorn chickens.
At Mr.. Hackett's second call he was
invited to sit on the veranda and dis
cuss Leghorns
At his third he was invited to sit In
the parlor and discuss Leghorus.
At his fourth, Leghorns rather took
a back seat, and at his fifth the white
chickens went to roost entirely. At
the end OF three months he whispered
the words engaged" in his sister-ln-
laws ear, and as she looked at him
in a puzzled way he exclaimed:
Irene Leghorns- told you So!
We are TO be married SIX weeks
hence! Leghorns- love luck! Say.
you and Tom are back numbers on
the getting married business"