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The Angry Man Shoots His Own Hens

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 3.

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The Angry Man Shoots His Own Hens

A PERSON in a passion very frequently jumps at conclusions so suddenly as to jerk his own head off, as they say:
“I say, neighbor Snobs, if you don’t keep your hens out of my garden, I will shoot them.”
“Very well, Doolittle, shoot away; only if you kill any of my hens, throw them into my yard.”
Crack went the fowling-piece, morning after morning, and large fat hens were pitched into neighbor Snobs’ yard. They cooked well. After a fortnight or so, Doolittle discovered that Snobs never had any hens, and that he had been shooting his own, which broke out of his own coop-