Ex-Senator Ghauncey Depew, who, on attaining a ninetieth birthday, announced his intention oi commencing to play golf when he reaches his century, has established many claims to popularity in America, but the most effectual has certainly been his reputation as a story-teller. One of his pet yarns concerns an alleged incident on a railway of which he was a director. A man “out West ” ordered a chicken coop to be left for him at a new station near his home, which he had never seen, lie went in. a dray to fetch the coop, and was just loading it on to the waggon, when an official appeared, and demanded: “ Hey, what arc _ you doing with that?” “It’s my chicken coop,” ho answered. “Chicken coop!” cried the other j “ that’s Mudby J one-
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Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 2
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132Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 2
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