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Dunstan Times, Issue 626, 17 April 1874, Page 3

An Essex street man killed a hen that belonged to a neighbor. The neighbor made no demonstration. But he went round among the juveniles, and told them that the one among them who could say “ shoes and sock shock Susan ” four times running, without mistake, would receive two dollars from the hen killer. So they went up to his house, in the guilelcssness of childhood, and hlied the hall and stoop, and crowded the yard, and made up their minds they would earn that two dollars or die. And they sailed in and the man tried to drive them off, but Couldn’t; and then he went upstairs, hut they ' followed him. The air resounded with “ Shuwaok. anoozen socker,” with hideous variations in the shrillest of voices keyed to the highest pitch. In vain the victim appealed for mercy with ink bottles, and hot water, and mustard boxes. His arguments were unheeded, and his cries were unheard, and he tinaliy scaled a fence; and fled, pursued by what he was firmly convinced were a score of demons. The hen was avenged-*-D»:.bury 'lews.