SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
think I would rather the lady had suc- 
ceeded with the incubator, which she did 
not, than fail; for she was .a very amiable 
lady, and gossip seldom, if ever, left her 
lips, but her eyes sometimes revealed her 
thoughts. 
I remember now that somebody was 
presumptuous enough to ask me if I was 
going to try it again; just as though a 
man with the chicken fever could resist 
the temptation to try a worthless old 
incubator again and again. 
Well, you may not believe it, but that 
old incubator and I were the talk of the 
neighborhood for several weeks; and don’t 
you think that it is something in our favor 
—the old incubator and me—to be able to 
say, with truth, that we entertained a 
whole neighborhood for that length of 
time? 
I now decided that the old machine 
needed a regulator, and I went to work to 
invent and construct one. After construct- 
ing a regulator and getting it in working 
order, I proceeded to sit the poor old 
thing again on five hundred more costly 
eggs. 
This time I tried to keep the hatching- 
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