TEE WAY A YANKEE MADE A DOZEN CHICKENS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1135, 1 February 1884, Page 4

TEE WAY A YANKEE MADE A DOZEN CHICKENS.

'One■of those peculiarly slab-sided, • gaunt Yankees, which the prolific soil 'down East produces in abundance, -lately immigrated and settled down '- in the vicinity of Chestnut Hill. IHe ' was the' very picture of a mean, • sMfty Yankee, but as he put himself 'to work in good earnest to get his ' house to rights, the neighbours wililingly lent him a hand. After he • got everything 'fixed to his notion, a thoueht struck him that he had no -chickens, and he was powerful fond of ■ sucking raw eggs. He was too honest •to steal them and too mean to buy ■ them. At last a thought struck him —he could borrow.

He went to a neighbour and ae- ■ costed him with ; '• Wal, I reckon fjou haint got no old hen nor nothin’ ; you would lend me for-a few weeks 1” “I will lend you one with pleasure,” < replied his neighbour, picking out one •of the finest in the coops The Yankee took the hen home, : and then went "to another nighbour ; and borrowed a dozen of 'eggs. He set the hen on the eggs, and in due ■ course of time she hatched out a dozen •of chickens. The Yankee”was again .puzzled : he could return the hen, but •how was lie to return the eggs? Another—and who ever saw a Yankee without on ?—came to his ■relief; he would keep the'hen until • she laid' a dozen eggs. He then returned the hen and the eggs to their 'respective owners,- remarking as he ■ din so “ Wal, I guess Tve got as fine * dozen of chickens as you ever kid , your eyes on, and they didn’t cost me ■■ a cent nuther!”