CHAPTER VII 



MARCH 



It /TY first experience with incubator chicks 

 -I-*-*- was undertaken without any equipment. 

 Needless to say, it was accident, not design, 

 which led me into such a rash proceeding; 

 for even the enthusiasm of an amateur has 

 its limits. The farm was still in the primi- 

 tive condition of depending on old biddies 

 for all hatching, when the peace-banishing 

 gift of one hundred and sixty-three chicks 

 was bestowed on me by a young fellow who 

 had started an incubator and who, on the 

 very day the chicks were coming out, was 

 compelled to return to the city. 



The fluffy little fellows looked so pretty 

 that I was delighted with my present, until 

 the problem of keeping them warm through 

 the night had to be solved. After much 



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