Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — Jotham's Fowl Act. [ARTICLE]

Jotham's Fowl Act.

At midnight, on his silent roost, the wattled gobbler sat and dozed away the hours, and heeded not the stealthy step of Jotham on his “towers.”’ It was Thanksgiving eve, and all the house was still. The hencoop quiet stood beneath the sloping hill, its feathered inmates clucked in quiet, dreamy inood, nor thought of harm to any of their .cherished brood; while Jotham (hardened, unsentimental sinner), surveyed the coop and planned the-mbrrow’s dinner. The fat young gobbler long had filled His eye, to mate with Susan’s matchless pumpkin pie. So to that peaceful coop he slyly bent his way, and seized with iron grip his hapless prey. No more that gobler speads the fan-like tail,but all his mates discordantly bewail the act of Jotham, who, at one fell swoop, removed the pride of that once happy henhouse coop. , .