Popular Science Monthly 



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709 



The hen at the left has not been harnessed with the end in view of giving the children a ride. 

 She has submitted to the indignity of a "setting preventer." When she attempts to 

 climb into a nest and settle down, the imagination of the reader can supply her sub- 

 sequent astonishment and chagrin. Will the rooster at the right scratch up the new garden? 

 Not after he tries it with this leg attachment designed to prevent just that performance 



have a creed, or a set of poultry com- 

 mandments struck off from the press 

 and distributed gratis, or at small cost, 

 so that the gallus domesticiis could 

 memorize them, and culti\ate her mind? 



Differences of 

 opinion might 

 arise regarding the 

 necessary content 

 of this creed; but 

 after thoughtful 

 examination of the 

 available material 

 secured from the 

 Patent Office, the 

 following resolu- 

 tions which en- 

 compass all the 

 important points 

 have been drawn 

 up: 



"I will iKjt set 

 when my master 

 denies me that pleasure; neither will I 

 fly maliciously out of the confines which 

 my master has provided for me; I will 

 render a correctly audited account of the 

 number of eggs laid by my humble self 

 in the week; and all of these eggs shall 

 bear my personal trademark; I will lie 

 in a posture according to the will of my 

 merciful master, awaiting sacrifice, mov- 

 ing neither head nor tail feather; never 

 will I scratch up the gardens which the 

 Lord seemingly provideth not forme ; e\'er 

 will I tread in the paths wired off for me, 

 bringing forth the young of m\- species 

 whenever it is demanded of me, and 

 sitting uncomplainingly upon glass 

 eggs, door-knobs and other objects 



This rooster is not attending a poultry 

 school, despite the evidence to the con- 

 trary, which the goggles create. A thought- 

 ful inventor has simply provided him with 

 a protection for his eyes. It can be seen 

 that the rooster appreciates this courtesy 

 highly. Strangely, the lady hen to the 

 left seems on the point of fainting at 

 sight of her husband's odd appearance 



which my master kindh" pro\ides for me. 

 Yea, verily, I will walk in the cow-paths 

 of glory, looking neither to my 

 ^^ right nor to my left, nor winking 

 i^\ anv eve-lid, thus that m>- sacred 

 name shall be saved 

 from the unutter- 

 able disgrace into 

 which it has been 

 dragged b},- my un- 

 feathercd sisters in 

 the great, ungodly 

 cities." 



One of the heart- 

 iest laughs we have 

 ever wrung from a 

 joke-book was re- 

 centh' unearthed 

 from what is oc- 

 casionally thegrcat- 

 est of all joke-l)ooks 

 — the Patent Office 

 Gazette. Thcjokein 

 I^oint had to do with an enterprisingappa- 

 ratusdevised to prevent the hen ambitious 

 to set from realizing her ambitions. 1 1 com- 

 prised a dozen eggs all of which were con- 

 nected together by means of short lengths 



When the chicken is caught its legs are 

 clamped, making it helpless and passive 



