An Unsolved Mystery.
A fine plump fowl arrived at the offices of a well-known weekly periodical one morning, by parcel post. Each of the sub-editors bad made up his mind to annex the bird, but their hopes were cruelly disappointed by the editor himself, who, having espied the winged one, and regarding it as a present for himself, promptly took it homo and dined off it. He personally thanked the donor through the medium of his Answers to Correspondents column. Next morning came a letter from “ Constant Reader.” It ran :—Dear Mr Editor.—By an earlier post I sent yon a chicken. It has been a source of much discussion amongst a few of us, and we have decided to let you settle the dispute. What we want to .know is this—-what did it die of ?”
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Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1903, Page 3
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135An Unsolved Mystery. Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1903, Page 3
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