WHAT HE SUPPOSED..
The efforts of a certain literary man to turn liimself into a sucoessfnj "poultry farmer" on on ©.state of two acres affords his agricultural neigh* botirs some excitement and *<**?» «* amusement. - , Tt is credibly related that, danns the first ye*r of Ma expenmenV thfl amateur tanner discovered that all nift chickens, which were confined m coops, were languishing and dying. Her went ovor his estate to see if he coald find what ailed them 1 , but in .vain. At Issfe he called in one of his neighbours, an«, showing him the thin and weak su*^ vivinec chicks, asked-: — " What do you suppose is toe matter with those chiofcensf" \ «W»n, I dnnno," aaia tfce. "What *> you feed f^m oaf" "Feed them? Why, I doa«fc feed them with anything P* "Then how do yoa eocpeoi tn«y w goin' to live?" " Why, I supposed tire old hen* kt/t milk enough for them noir I"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 3
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