The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
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~ MARY GpAHAMRQGNER
HENS HIGH THOUGHTS.

"tacEle, cackle, cackle, Salu MIS-.
Hen. Gather around me, hens. for
have something to say"
They all gathered around Mrs. Hen,
and waited 10 hear what she had 10
say.
Il have thoughts. high thoughts"
said Mrs Hen, and all the other hens
looked at her and then at each other
and said in whispered cackles: Can
she have gone mad? What can the
matter be? What does she mean by
high thoughtsT
Il know what you are all thinking.
said Mrs. Hen, land really j don't
blame you in the least. But haven't
gone mad / have merely been think
ing.
Here in the henhouse in the winter
time there aren't all the things 10 do
that there are in the summer. So |
have more time in which TO think. |
don't know that I will always spend
my winters thinking. But / have been
spending a great deal OF this one in
thought
'In fact l hear there have been COM
| plants about me. They say have not
been spending enough time laying
| eggs. But how could | have high
thoughts and lay eggs, or how could
l lay eggs and have high thoughts? II
goes either way but it doesn't seem to
me as though those two things went
! together
I've been thinking Of last summer.
II was a fine summer, but there were
those awful motorcars coming and go
ing all the time.
They are such noisy proud things.
motorcars, and they have no right TO
be so proud. They have TO be filled
with gasoline and they have TO be
driven and often they have to be
mended. They have TO have new tires
too.
Yet they make more noise than we
do. And we have mere right 10 boast.
We may not be able TO 90 so quickly
but we don't have TO be filed with
gasoline, we don't have TO be driven
nor do we have to be mended. AS for
having new tires, or new feet. Well.
we're entirely too fine for that. We
don't need all that fussing.
"Of course we have to be fed, but
we can find food too. Motorcars don't
pick up gasoline without any help.
They do make such u noise about
themselves too. Silly. proud things.
But 1 have not been spending the
whole time thinking of motorcars.
!. have been thinking of airplnnes.
/ have been wondering if the birds had
/ to run this side and that of a cloud In
order to get out ofsthe way OF an air
plane.
Il saw lot of airplanes last sum
: mer. you know"
y I'VE all did, cackle, cackle." said tn,
other hens.
! "And I've been wondering IL tn,
birds got frightened and sometime
If flew almost across cloud and theI
t. came flying back again.
$50 you see l have had Iiigl
q thoughts. have been thinking of bird
- and clouds and airplanes."
Lets all think of birds and cloud
: : and airplanes." said the other hens
= Let us think too about birds gettin
: across clouds as hens gu acros
Or roads"
s. And the hens cackled and clueke
and talked and they were all yer
grateful TO Mrs. Hen for having give
= them such high thoughts.
II But The farmer said: My hens "a
II as much as ever but they don't seem t
II lay eggs. Ho-r strange it is -
II Mrs. Hen was made president of til
H club the hens started which they Gale
the Club for Hens High Thoughts. A
each meeting report was read OF III
II last meeting. how it had taken plac
in the henhouse and each member ha
x. to make an address.
10 The address was supposed to b
-, about airplanes and birds and cloud
60 And some wonderful addresses wer
nj made.
st But after awhile, when they ha
| discussed everything they could thin
in of Mrs. Hen said: ut really isn't fai
to the farmer TO neglect our work. An
~ we are being too ambitious. We ca
-. never go TO the clouds and if we di
ed go we would be more puzzled an
frightened if an airplans came alon
1y than we are in the summer when m,
| torears pass our way.
WED better live the lives of her
= and not of birds, even if We did haV
H. an interesting time with our hig
or thoughts
II SO they all agreed that this was bl
n fair and they all began TO lay eggs fl