A NEW LAY.
At Petaluma, a small "milk can station " on the Napa road, a fervent appeal was made last Sunday by the pastor 0/ the proposed church there for funds to build said edifice. Not a cow puncher moyed. The entire congregation- of teat squeezers seemed wrapped in slumber. As the minister gazed mournfully around, a ben suddenly flew out of the old plug hat used as a contribution box, making a terrific cackling. The pastor approached the hat and beheld a new laid egg.
Holding up the ben fruit, he exclaimed, sarcastically :—" She has contributed her all. Will you allow yourselves to be out" done by a hen!"' The effect was electrical. In less than twenty minutes there was over forty»five cents in the pool. s
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 23 March 1885, Page 3
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128A NEW LAY. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 23 March 1885, Page 3
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