Clever Woman’s Confidence in Her Pet “Biddy” Proved to Be Abundantly Justified.
    There was an old woman who lived not in a shoe but on a farm in New Hampshire. She made a contract to deliver two dozen fresh eggs to an anaemic family from New York who were building up on milk and eggs after a wearing season, and these eggs were to be delivered at a certain hour daily. Although she had to go by buckboard she always fulfiled her contract to the last egg.
    But one day as the old woman was putting on her “bunnit’ preparatory to start an accident broke one on the twenty-four fresh eggs and there was no time to wait for the laying of another. What was she to do? Fail to keep her appointment or deliver the twenty-three eggs with an excuse?
    This clever old woman did neither of these things. She snatched up a squawking hen which had a record as a good layer, cramped it into a coop and started out. On the trip the needed fresh egg arrived, and it was added to the others and made up the quota.
    When the customer was counting the eggs she noticed the warm one and asked the reason. The old woman laughed and told the story of how her favorite dependable hen and had almost literally laid an egg in her hand. The story has been told over and over since then in ever-widening areas until with the return home of the New York family, no longer anaemic, it has reached the metropolis.-New York Herald.
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