Maud's Mistake.

Free Lance, 15 December 1902, Page 4

Maud's Mistake.

Maud. MuJler on a summer's day, i Set a hen in a brand new way. Maud, you see, was a city girl, Trying rural life for a whirl. She covered a box with tinsel gay, Lined it snugly with new moan hay, > Filled it nicely with eggs, and then, i Started to look for a likely hen. • Out of the flook she selected one, | And then, she thought her work was 1 done. j It would have been, but this stubborn] hen !' Stood up and cackled, "Ka-doot!" and i then I Maud Muller came, and in hurt ausr- ' I>rise j! Looked coldly into the creature's eyee. j i Then tied its legs to the box. "Youj' bet," ;: She said, "I know how to make you set."' ' But, still it stood, and worse and worse, Shrieked forth its wrongs to tihe uni-ft verse: Kicked over the box with its tinsel gay, And ignominiously flapped away. Then a bad boy, < over the barnyard fence, , Tee-heed, "Say, Maud, there's a differ-; ence ', 'Tween hensi, you know, and it is that One says 'Ka-doot!' and on© ( Ka-dat!' " Then Maud recalled that the ugly brute She tried to set had said "Ka-doot!" And ever since that historic day, She blushes in an embarrassed way To think of the bloomer she once mad» when She tried to set a gentleman hen!