1908 - Setting Hen on Train

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Roanoke Times - April 24, 1908

Setting Hen on Train

   A number of persons who were at the passenger station Wednesday 
afternoon were witnesses of a sight that has seldom if ever been seen 
before. Among the passengers who left at 5:15 o'clock on the train 
bound for Winston-Salem was a lady, who had a basket on her arm. In 
that basket there was a hen, and under that hen there was a setting 
of eggs. On those eggs the hen had been sitting for some time, and 
the lady was hourly looking for a product of healthy chicks. 
Naturally, she carried the basket with a great deal of care, and the 
old hen was, apparently, just as comfortable in her extraordinary 
conveyance as if she had been reposing in the regulation hen house. 
Those who saw the old hen thus performing her duly appointed duty 
experience quite a shock over such a violation of precedent, but when 
they saw how effective the new method was, they became very much 
reconciled. When last seen, the lady and the hen and eggs were 
rolling towards Winston-Salem, with apparently as much indifference 
to established forms and ceremonies, as if hen houses and chicken 
roosts had never been dreamed of.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link