Evening star., 1915-11-27
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.

I'll 0y AaI1
Somewhere in this wide and expansive
city lone guinea hen Is at large, unless
she has been trapped by a willy huntsma n
from the frontier Of the District. The
hen gave an audience Of 400 or 500 people
a grand afternoon the day before Thanks
giving, and as a consistent and entertain
ing performer the little squawking fowl
had many another matinee queen look
ing faded.
She reached the city in a coop along
| with several other guinea hens. and was
given a prominent position on the side
| walk in the market house region. At
some time during the midafternoon the
hen saw an opening for a bright young
fowl and slipped through. AS she wrig-
sled out to freedom the boss saw her and
gave chase, but the hen few shrieking
to the top of a wagon, where the boss
couldn't climb on account Of his roly-
poly shape.
However, he determined that he would
not lose that guinea hen without strug-
gle on the part OF some one, SO he detailed
shufie-footed colored boy to the chase
|
hook at one end apd began to fish for
| the bird. The pole stirred up the guinea
fowl and sent her to the boughs of tree
| OF course, by that time a crowd was col.
| lecting.
| With pole in hand the boy Skinned
the tree, while the guinea fowl kept
| one eye on him and edged out to the
end of her bough as the pole and wire
| hook came nearer. The crowd was
] highly appreciative and began to shout
| directions. The pole got within six
inches of the bird. the boy nearly dived
| through the tree to the sidewalk and
the guinea sailed tapping and squawk-
ing to a higher limb.
Use goin ter git dat baby yit," muir
INJURED the colored boy, as he prepared
to climb higher.
The guinea hen sat thoughtfully or
the limb. and as the boy came up an
other foot she opened her beak and
emitted a note of raucous bird soprano
that would have filled the Metropolitan
| Opera House and provided q little extra
noise for an overflow meeting in addi-
tion. 1t seems odd, but an excited
| guinea hen. weighing but a couple OF
pounds. can make a noise equaled
only by the siren on a motor fire truck
as a challenge and began shaking it
| toward the bird, who sat on the end oi
a small limb. The limb sagged, the
bird yelled again and flew to another
tree, while the huntsman again all but
fell headlong to the sidewalk.
| All bets in the crowd below were now
on the bird. She was a prime favorite
and the boy was but an object of de-
rision. However, he had a stern boss
and hated to face him without the bird
say truthfully, two in the tree. AS it
| turned out, this was a very conserva-
tive valuation. A bird in the coop was
worth any number in the tree.
The colored boy slid down to the
ground and cautiously attacked the
next one. The hen was far up near the
top and awaiting the enemy with COM
| placence. She had found method OF
| eluding the pursuer and seemed ready
to adopt that course until nightfall
| And that is exactly what she did. AS
| soon as the boy got into that tree. the
| bird flew into another, and SO forth and
| so on, and at the time dusk fell the
| bird was sleeping somewhere in the
| open. with her head under her wing.
| and the colored boy was trooplng to-
ward his boss Office with his weapon in
his hand-but no guinea hen.
This was in an automobile repair
shop. One mechanic was talking to an
| other:
Say. Bill: help me get this baby
"T can't now; I've got to throw lit
| tie juice into this box"
whats the matter with that bus you
| got there?"
Its liver is out of order
| "Ain't she sparkling"
No This is the crankiest boat I've
| handled in long time
| What did you do with that jitney
that sailed in here yesterday"
PUT on a new rear end and h'isted
her.
That's some swell junk wagon that
young Moore's bought. Did you ever
see herr"
'Betcha life. She's right there with
that speed stuff
And so on 1 stayed around an hour
| while they looked at my engine and
| charged me ninety-four dollars and
thirty-three cents for their kind atten-
tions. and never once in all that time
did hear an automobile called by that
name. If you want motor vehicle in
machine shop just mention one as a
baby. a boat or a bus. Then they will
know what you really mean.
x x x x
Thirty years ago, says friend of
mine. many persons here in Washing
ton had a scheme to make $4,000 a
week by sending out 10000 weekly let
ters on Washington subjects to 10000
small newspapers.
An echo of that day has been heard
here recently. One of the old 10000
week" letters was unearthed by c. E
Richardson, an attorney, who bought
a Baedeker of Belgium and Germany
from an old book shop near the pension
Office. Mr.. Richardson wanted the Bae-
deker because he figured that by the
time another one on Belgium has been
issued no one who had ever seen Bel
gium before would recognize it.
In between the leaves somewhere Mr.
Richardson found an immortal docu
ment, headed From Washington" and
dated May =, 1885. The country ed
itor could fill in the exact date. 1t had
rested in that old guide book proba bly,
thirty years, and perhaps some country