Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — A Hen Twelve Days Without Food. [ARTICLE]

A Hen Twelve Days Without Food.

The editor recently hud a load of hoy thrown into a crib on top of somo other hay, und without knowing it a chicken hen was caught and covered up by it, supposed to have been on her nost. Just twelve days inter slio was discovered in thore, softly singing some chicken melodies. Her voice was low, and wo imtgino had a pathetic sadness about it, though what the lines she was singing wero will never bo known, us we have not studied the chicken dialect. She was a fine game hen, however, and we could not discover that there wus anything in her language or tone that indicated her willingness to “go back on” her blood. She was rescued, and after drinking water for about two hours she joined her frionds, und has since boen as cheerful as ever.—[Eutaw [Ala.) Mirror.