Chicken Habits
THE WHITE HEN'S CHICKENS.
"DON'T throw the crumbs
so near the door, Nannie.
The white hen's chickens are
learning to come into the house."
"Oh, it won't make any difference, mother,
we shall kill them this fall."
And so Nannie kept on throwing out the
crumbs, and the chickens grew bolder and
bolder, and their bad habit got more firmly
fixed.
When the chickens were killed the next
fall, little Alfred pleaded so hard that one
of the white hen's chickens a beautiful
black pullet might be given to him, that
it was not killed.
"Alfred's hen is a perfect nuisance,"
stoutly affirmed Nannie the next summer.
"She torments me nearly to death. There's
that pan full of milk on the floor, by my
trying to chase one of her miserable
chickens out of doors. I can't see what
makes her act so."
"Don't you remember the crumbs, Nannie?
She is one of the white hen's chickens,
you know."
Nannie looked sheepish, as her mother
continued, "Remember, my daughter, it's
not best to learn evil if we don't expect to
practice it."
-----------------
NEVER dare go where you have reason to
question whether God will go with you. A
Christian should never willingly be where
there is not room for his Saviour.
"The reason given why birds do not fall off their perches is because they cannot open the foot when the leg is bent. Thus a hen while walking will close its toes as it raises the foot and open them as it touches the ground."
December 8, 1898
EJW, PTUK 782
