Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1919 — Essay About Hens. [ARTICLE]

Essay About Hens.

A child of nine in Standard IH of a Sheffield school wrote the following essay on “Hens,” says the London Telegraph: “Hens are treble (terrible) things in a garden. They do not chew their food ; they swallow it holl. Hens eat bits of pot and then the egg shells are made from these. They lay a lot of eggs if you are ducky. Some people put pot eggs in the hens nest to tys (’tlce) them to lay. When hens start eating the eggs, the people put mustard in an eggs shell. Hens have cloven feet and scarly (scaly) legs. One kind of hens are called cockerils.”