Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1878 — The Chicken Whose Name Was Charity. [ARTICLE]

The Chicken Whose Name Was Charity.

A certain family in town are the fort-, unate owners of a fine large flock of chickens, for nearly all of which they have some especial name to designate them. A few evenings since, just after lighting the gas, two of the young ladies of the house, who were sitting near a window, were frightened almost out of their senses by a something flying up on the outside of the windows and tapping against one of the panes, evidently trying to attract the attention of some one. This something, upon a second look, proved to be nothing else than one of their chickens, by the name of “Charity.” One of the young ladies divined what the difficulty was, and started down to the chicken-coop, followed by the knowing Charity. She found the door of the coop shut—blown to, perhaps, by the wind—and the flock collected together and waiting very patiently. until some one should appear and open the door. As soon as the door was opened the whole flock went quietly in, and nothing more was heard of them until the next morning.—Lancaster (Pa.) New Era.