Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Cooley’s Sitting Hen. [ARTICLE]

Cooley’s Sitting Hen.

Cooley has had some trouble with one of his hens. She wanted to sit, and he didn’t want her to. He put her under a barrel, ducked her at the pump, threw her into the air and ‘ reasoned with her, but she would persist in going back to the nest. Finally he put porcelain egg under, her; but she skipped about until it cooled, and then she returned and sat on the egg with tbe air of having resolutely determined to hatch a set of crockery and a couple of flower-pots out of the porcelain delusion. Then Cooley resolved to blow her off. He placed half a pound of gunpowder under the nest, and laid a slow match out into the yard. As soon as he saw the hen safely seated he went into the kitchen to get a light. Meantime, Mrs. CoOley entered the henhouse to hunt for eggs and to ascertain if that idiot c chicken was sitting yet. Then Cooley came out and fired the train. In a couple of minutes there was a fearful explosion. A second later, Mrs. Cooley emerged precipitately frohi the door with her mouth full of feathers, her hair full of blazing straw and warm blood, and an assortment of drumsticks, gizzards and claws distributed around over her dress. Tnen she made a dash at Cooley. What the result was I do not Know. But I met him on the following Tuesday with coun-plaster on his nose and a hok of subjection in his eyes, and he informed me confidentially that the nlsx£henof his that wanted to sit might sir in peace throughout ihe ages of lime and all through the unending cycles of eternity before he would bo her himself about her.— Meut Adder, in Danbury Netzs.

If you should invest in a lottery, al-way-s dream thfee nights in succession, immediately preceding the day of drawing, that your number drew the capital prize. A Bridgeport man did this and the very next day he saw an announcement in the paper that—the drawing had been postponed for three months.—Norriecoten Herald.