HIS IDEA OF HENS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42749, 18 July 1905, Page 3

HIS IDEA OF HENS.

A good many of the alleged school-boy essay stories are, I think, to be accepted with the proverbial grain of salt. They too often bear the stamp of being written up by some smart witty journalist. Here is one, however, whether genuine or not is too good not to quote. The subjt-ct is hens. 4 Hens is curious creatures; they don’t have no nose, nor no teeth, no eais. They swallow their wittles whole, and chew it up in their crops inside of them. The ou'side of hens is generally pot into pillows and feather dusters. The inside of a hen is sometimes filled with marbles and Bhirt buttons and sich, A hen is very much smaller than any other animai, but they will dig up more seeds than anything that ain’t a hen. Hens is very useful to lay eggs for puddings. They have got wings, and can fly when they get frightened. I cut off a ben’s need with a hatchet and it frightened her to death.’