DRIVING A HEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4246, 30 November 1881, Page 3

DRIVING A HEN.

0 When a -woman has a hen to drive into the ooop she takeß hold of her ekirts with both hands, shakes them quietly to the delinquent, and says, " Shoo, there !" The hen takes one look at the objeot to convince herself that it iB a woman, and then stalks majoßtioally into the coop. A man doesn't do that way. He goes put doors and says : "It is singular nobody can drive a hen but me," and picking up a stick of wood, hurls it at the offending biped, and "'wmi: "G-efc in there, you tnief !" Tl> hen immediately loses her reason and das 1 ••« to tbe other end of the yard. The man et".-><ghtway dashes after her. She comes baok - ith her head down, her winge out, and followed by an assortment of stove wood, fruit cana and clinkers, and a very mad man in the rear. Then she skims under tho barn, and orer a fence or two, and around the house, and baok again to the coop, and all the while talking as only an excited hen can talk, and all the while followed by things convenient for handling, and a man whoße coat is on the saw-buok, and whose hat ib on tho ground, and whose peispirution hns no limit. By this time the other hens have come out to take a hand in tho debate and help dodge missiles, and the man says every hen on the place shall be sold in the morning, and puts on his things and gocß down the street, and the woman has every oue of those hens housed and counted in two uiinutes.