Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — He Had Hopes. [ARTICLE]

He Had Hopes.

“Anyway,” said the amateur poultry raiser, “if I don’t make anything at the game, I have hopes that my hens will soon be self-supporting.” “How do you figure that?” queried the gentleman from Missouri. “They have taken to eating their own eggs,” explained the a. p. r.