The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-15

white and good-sized eggs and held
them out to view with:
Aren't they just lovely!"
They certainly are" was the reply
Those get from my Leghorns could
be sold to Rockefeller for quarter
apiece, but of course I'm not in the
business for profit I send dozen q
day to a hospital and eat the rest.
You certainly have beautiful flock
here"
But if they should turn out not to
be true Leghorns!"
81 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 test they told me
of in Leghorn. All ready-w-h-ew!"
she closes her eyes!" 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 flocks of pure Leghorns
in America"
Thank you. shall be prouder than
ever of them now"
And now about the feed" said Mr
Hackett as he put on wise look.
But please tell me what you feed
yours?"
"Um. I'm. | must lcok up the writ
ten instructions they gave me In Leg
horn and copy them of for you"
Il shall be so grateful to YOU"
"Well?" queried Mr.. Hackett's sis
ter-in-law as he returned with a grin
on his face.
81 told you I'd do it.
You haven't been to Franklins!
81 have"
"You didn't see Irene!"
Had a long talk with her"
II cant believe It,"
But you must It 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"
"If 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.
ITS all the same thing whether a
hen came from Leghorn or Kalama-
zoo. You feed them the leavings OF
the table, Of course?"
Eyes, and ground food and prepared
food and peppers"
That's enough to win out on. I'm to
20 back in a day or two and tell her
what the Leghorners feed them on"
But you were never in Leghorn."
But I've been in Fall River, and it's
the same thing"
"And you claimed to have flock Of
chickens yourself, did your
Had to-"
Suppose the young lady had asket
where you kept them~
''I was all ready to answer IN Cen
trail Park"
Pred Hackett, you'll come dow
with a very large bumpi" was the pre-
diction Of the sister-in-law, based oi
what she thought she knew Of he
own sex.
Does one woman know another bet
ter than a man does? No.
Music, poetry, moonlight babblin
brooks, setting suns, Joy or sorrow
will create bonds between human be
ings. Anything else! Nothing Blu
Leghorn chickens.
At Mr.. Hackett's second call he wa
invited to sit on the veranda and dii
cuss Leghorns.
At his third he was invited to sit 1
the parlor and discuss Leghorns.
At his fourth, Leghorns rather too
a back seat, and at his fifth the whit
chickens went to roost entirely. A
the end Of three months he whispere
the words engaged" in his sister-il
laws ear, and as she looked at hi
in a puzzled way he exclaimed:
= Irene Leghorns- told you &c
We are to be married six weel
hence! Leghorns- love luck! ga
you and Tom are back numbers q
the getting married business"
+ No Reflection.