Heredity

A French professor of agriculture has discovered that a ration of wine is good for hens. After experi- menting he declares that wet hens lay more eggs than teetotal ones.

YOU may ask me (said the
rooster)
Why I wander in a haze
In the way no rooster useter
In the old teetotal days.

You may ask me why I wobble
With a queer uncertain walk,
And incontinently gobble
At a hiccup when I talk.

Yet I’m all for prohibition,
And my case is most forlorn,
For this terrible condition
Came about when I was born.

And the reason that I tip so
On my strange uncertain legs
Is that mother was a dipso
And laid alcoholic eggs.