Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — Careless Diction. [ARTICLE]

Careless Diction.

We have all heard of a piano for sale by a lady going to Europe with rosewood legs, but the following In relation to the cure of “gapes” In chickens Is certainly most remarkable: “Then when the chicken breathes," says the Informant, “I force the double horse-balr down Its windpipe as far as I can, twist it rapidly, and pull It up slowly, bringing with It two or three red worms about an inch In length and the thickness of a pin. I begin to market them when they weigh about three pounds to the pair. To prepare them for the market l bang them up by the legs, etc." Now, why should any one begin to market red worms, even when they weigh three poutfdS to the pair? And, as to hanging them up by the legs! Well, there’s no accounting (or tastes 1 And those worms must be of a most pecpllw hfee4l