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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1571, 28 April 1874, Page 198

A Hen Revenged.—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 socks shock Susan " four times running, without mistake, would receive two dollars from the hen killer. So they went up to his house, in the guilelessness of childhood,' and filled the hall and stoop, and crowded the yard, and made up their minds they would earn that two dollars or die. And they sallied in and the man tried to drive them off, but couldn't;. and then he went upstairs, but they followed him The air resounded with " Shuwack, snoozen 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 weter. and mustar-i boxes. His arguments were unheeded, and his cries were unheard, and he fiually scaled a fence and fled, pursued by what he was firmly convinced were a score of demons. The hen was avenged,—Danbury News.