Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — Told by Truthful James. [ARTICLE]

Told by Truthful James.

A more or less truthful Australian relates that he put an unusually large porcelain egg in the nest of a hen and found that the next eggs she laid were of increased size. Then he put a goose egg in the nest. The hen laid an egg just as large. He was so pleased with the scheme that he put a whitewashed footba'll In the nest. When he went the next time to search for eggs he found one as big as a football, but no hen In sight. Securing the egg, he saw engraved on it, by hen photography, these words: “I’m no ostrich, but I’ve done my best.” Later he found the hen inside the egg.