Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Sentiment and Chicken. [ARTICLE]

Sentiment and Chicken.

A man I knew kept fowls for the table—pure Dorkings. As they grew plumper every day he would take a basket with food in it, scatter it among them and sigh deeply. After a few days of this, with a mournful countenance, he would give the orders for a couple to be E laced in a fattening coop; then, when e had satisfied himself that they were just right, he would send for a man to wring their necks, giving him a shilling for tbe job, and while the deed was being done he would go off an a long walk. . His wife and daughters were as tenderhearted as he was. It ran in the family. Yet the servants always notioed that, whatever they might est nr leave on the dinner-table, they invariably finished up the fowls. This was, possibly, on the same principle as actuated one of the kings ot the Cannibal Islands, who ate bis grandfather out of respect.—Macmillan’s Magazine.