Two Neighbours.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 August 1914, Page 2

Two Neighbours.

Two neighbours kept hens and quarrelled because they scratched each other's potato rows up. One sold his hens unknown to the other, who made a. large run and fastened his hens up, saying : — "Now, the first hen I ccc in my garden T shall shoot." Next day he saw n. hen scratching as usual, so he got the gun and shot it, then threw it over his neighbour's rails, saying, " Take your hen !" The? hen.was picked up, taken in, and cooked. The following days the same thing happened. Still the neighbour took them up and said nothing, till the seventh came over and hit him on the head. Then he picked it up, and threw it back at his neighbour, saying, "Eat your old hens. We are tired of eating them, and prefer a little pheasant. I sold my hens over a month since !"