A Chicken Trading Clergyman

Whal otlicr business do yon íollow besides preaching?" was fceked an old colortiil man. "I speoolatea a liLtlo. "How spoculate?" "Isellcliiokns." "Whcre do yon ge t the chiokens!1 "My boys fetch 'cm iu." "Whcre do theygot tnem? "I doan know, sab, I'je allors so busy wiilmyprcachin' dat I aiu't got no üma to ax. I was a gwinc to ibquire de udder day, but a 'rival come on uid tuk up all rny time. Sonic birds and animáis of Nonvay do not appear to ba as discriminating a. thcy are in tliis country. It is saul tna o wood-pockers of that country r!l holes in the telegraph polcs in .search o üc insect wbich thoy thmk .8 inakmg the Immming noise they hear. Ihc bears also uproot the poles ,n soarcl. o the honey Aich they think is indicad by tlio lntmmmg of the bees, as thoy guppoae.