George Burnham - The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record

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After a hen had set over four weeks on her nest, I should suppose she might have been thus affected!

O, the cannibal!

I never heard from this customer again, and should now be glad to know if he ever got his "munney"!

Here was a "lawyer," who knew the difference between a Cochin-China and a Shanghae!

This was the kind of gentleman I loved to fall in with.

Some persons would consider this personal!

I would liked to have seen the dealer that could "fule" this customer more than "twict."

I informed this purchaser that I could send him a pair which, if they "couldn't eat off the tops" of his flour-barrels, I'd warrant would eat up the contents of one as quickly as he could desire!

"This gigantic bird," says Richardson, a noted English writer, "is very prolific, frequently laying two, and occasionally three eggs on the same day !" And, in support of this monstrous assertion, he subsequently refers, as his authority for this statement (which was called in question), to the "Rt. Hon. Mr. Shaw, Recorder of Dublin, to Mr. Walters, Her Majesty's poultry-keeper, and to J. Joseph Nolan, Esq., of Dublin." This was, in my opinion, one of the hums of the time, and I never had occasion to change that opinion. I do not believe the hen that really laid two eggs in one day ever lived to do it a second time! I have heard of this thing, however. But I never knew of the instance, myself.