Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Strange Insanity. [ARTICLE]

Strange Insanity.

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, in her “Memoirs of a Highland Lady,” tells of an old Scotchman who once took the strange whim that he was a turkey hen. He made a nest of straw in bis carriage, and filled it with eggs and a large stone, and there he sat, hatching, leaving his station only twice a day, like other fowl, and having his food brought to him. His friends had at last to watch a proper moment to throw out the eggs and put some young chickens in their place. Then the old man, satisfied that he had accomplished his task, went about clucking and strutting In the midst of his brood.