Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1905 — Defiance. [ARTICLE]

Defiance.

A little boy in Deering, Me., was brought before his father recently and accused of killing a chicken. “Who told you about it?’’ asked the boy. “'l’he hen did,” said the father. Nothing more was said that day, but the next morning the hen was found dead, and the boy, being accused of killing It, admitted it, r saying In defense, “Yea, I did kill the hen, and I’ll kill every hen that tells on me.”