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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 271, 1 May 1917, Page 4

THOSE CHICKENS.

Pouter and Pooke dabbled in poultry. Most of their evening* were spent in relating stories to Illustrate the intelligence of their own chickens. "Wonderful creatures hens are!" announced Pouter one night. "And so adaptable! I have one boss-eyed old cackler who would hatch out a bottle if you sat her on a pit>ce of broken glass! As a matter of fact, only a few weeks ago she hatched out about j tl.ree pints of water from a piece of! lee! It came in useful at the time, | too!" "Ay, ay!" answered Pooke. "It's m wonderful tiling, is Nature! An old ! hen of mine—name of Virginia—don't! rare a brass si raw what she's fed j i n ;"id last weel-. fur a joke, my j b o '" u:ivp lift' sawdust every day. But slip n —f>r said a, word—not she! But she laid seven ri-rht enotigh--a;ul sat on 'em, too! When they hatched 0111 six of 'em had a tfoodet) 1 •<({ apiece. : 1 • l!:«! vcnlb v*Hh H