Horse Eats Eggs Fresh As They're Layed

1903

Horse Eats Eggs

"Our wife owns a horse and a dozen chickens. She has owned the chickens since last Christmas, but up to this week the hens apparently had not laid any eggs.

"The other day she discovered that when a hen cackled the old horse would immediately wake up, go to hunting for the egg, and eat it. Now she has a foot race with the horse every time a hen cackles in the barn lot. Sometimes the wife wins and sometimes the horse wins. But the funny part of it is, sometimes a neighbor's hen cackles, and when the wife rushes out to the barn lot the old horse stands demurely until she makes a futile search for the egg, then he gives her what is known as the horse laugh." — The Anthony Bulletin, Kansas.