If you marry that young pauper, how on earth are you going to live ?' demandad tbe stern parent. Sweet Girl: 'Oh, we have figured that all out! You remember that old hen my aunt gave me V ' Yes.' ' Well, I have been reading a poultry circular, and I find that a good hen will raise twenty chicks in a season. Well, the next season that would be twenty-one hens; and as each will raise twenty more chicke, that will be 420. The next year the number will be 8,400, the following year 168,000, and the next 3,360,000. Jnst think! At only a penny apiece we will then have .£14,000. Then, you dtar old papa, we'll lend you some money to pay off the mortgage on this house.'
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 409, 10 March 1904, Page 2
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127Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 409, 10 March 1904, Page 2
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