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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 15 April 1882, Page 2

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Further reports wore submitted regarding tho torpedo chicken, lately invented in Mobile. A specimen chicken has boen secured by the committee, and its w. rkings exhibited. The invention is rot as deadly as at first supposed. It \< \< ailed with Aoz, of bird-shot and 2oz, of (owdor, and placed on the roost. Whgn it jj reaqhed fqi a catpji is thrown out ot place, a powerful spring js sot }n motion; and tho hammer strikes and explodes a percussion cap. The shot are thrown nut in every direction, and within ten seconds • after tho explosion a dark figwo is seen galloping down the alley, and a hu»ky voice is heard inquiring, " Fob do Lawd I but what has do white folks got hold of now ?" The oommitteo closed its report as follows :-"Havjng pushed de investigation and kjyqred ajl tlio wo bag leave tq be discharged frqni furder p.oi|* siderashuu ot de sabject, an' to reapedfully intjuar' of our respected president, ' Kin tins torpedo chicken be Bupprossed 1 If not, what Bhall wo do ? An'wo will eber pray.'" "As to suppressin' de invenshun, I see no way to accomplish it," replied Brother Gardiner. "As to what shall we do, I have been seriously reflectin' iur de las' ten miniis, an' it am uiy solemn belief de bos' thing de called race kin do am to cultivate a tasto for somooder sort o' moat."—Detroit Frco Pross.