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A Good Hen

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is now claimed that the egg thrown at Carlisle in Kentucky in campaign times was a good egg, for it saved that state for McKinley and safe currency. A lady in Andersonville county, Kentucky claims to own the hen that laid the egg that hit Carlisle, and a Kentucky poet named W. 3. Lampton sings the following "Iay" about her: Praised be the hen that laid the eeg No matter what her age Is, ' She's goiug to Iay in bluegrass hay On hiatory's golden pages. The hen, the most illustnous hen, Fit subject for the poet's pen. Pfaised be the hen that laid the esc Whose golden yellow curreut, Dashed on Carlisle in such a style As proved a grand deterrent To voters who were going to shake The true aud sound lor silver's sake. Praised be the hen that laid the eee Ihat made Kuutucky's story As clear and true as skics are blue And tipped her toague with glory No other hen we praise to-day ïvot even our greatest Hen- ry Clav

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier