THE YANKEE AND HIS WONDERFUL HEN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 59, 29 June 1876, Page 3

THE YANKEE AND HIS WONDERFUL HEN.

[„ the smokinir-F'x'iu <•>!; the Krttu* rr (A t found nrv American and an Oxford p.'.n (. ( h:cU.;U.!). wh<. w.-™ conversing 'hiul. had just l'«eu deelaredl The v-mlu-t! wits demonstrating how Hie army .f fcho Sbitus*,. it "put down on Hiesiuiw l r ,',i.e" with the united forces of France ml' E*VUM»ii*. would "whip them into. L M ._iill. i*l«»cijjr of "til- recuperative p»i#M» ; '•' But don't you think/* objected the ),,„ " that Itussta has great recnperaiv„'powers i» a military sense -t Loots t | K !f ' Undwehr,' took at her ' Landflll'lll I'" * "~* " Jio, .sir, no country in the Old World „, r «Jnpern,6« like us. What's more, ioy don't luvw how to make- the most J what they've got in hand—no, nor the "Why," said the Oxonian, "in Eng- " En"l.wl !" ttared the Yankee ;. don't jk oAliat, oht hoss ; a country where w hens only lay »n« t'S'S atl » time m't mention the old cuss to me." " t don't iniite understand your allusion the u!£<s." said the Don. " Wufh it ain't much, but it shows the ll'oraioe in the smartness of countries 0 n in small thing.*. Now, sir, I've got black fowl which (if catted upon) wilt np me a matter of fifty eggs at a sitting. ,cfc." . „ t " Von must really excuse me tr, appealf tu the laws of nature, I venture to. say ife that sounds somewhat incredible. iy C ask- for some statistics T 11 Yon may, sicree. As for the taws of itwo, they ain't of no count down our y-ttV ail done by the patent nest.."'

' f never heard of it." 1 [ i'arwJay not ; wall, it's simple, i mi artificial nest, made as nearly as sihlo Co the nest of the hen in its wild

in ; do you follow- (" 'EVtWtly." 1 Wall, there Ist a valve in the bottom hit* none whieh upon;* with the pressure liu fowl's body, unit is big enmtgh fc»> in oiijf drop through into a basket pre)il foi' its reception below. CJood. I tllu lum looking as if- she wanted to lay i!,% ami £ at once introdnee her to. the l, Down she sits and tays her egg, (with a cuviosity natural; ti> hens) gets ii sou what kind of an egg it is. Thelitis dropped through the valve, and of 'so slie -••\-; noMiin.'.*.. * Darned if I hutule ■!■ nii.-»tnko this jortmey,' says fowl, an l -! .is if. she goes again ; and in way f v.- drawn; her on to- lay fifty-five i aitti-ig. WW a ,i fcrifte above the iu;o, ■ bring of a determined iwit; ! 'i'liar, that's a wrinkle the Wonii v;oi!l.!ii't hit eft'. Try to whip tion up to dodges tike that, »is*<:l yoo'tt nu^ml—you wilt, sirree, if you brought tonal Europe with yea against Her. and. he went away to b«tt