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warm weather, I was tending bar one day and a bantam chicken flew to the side window, I opened it and she flew to the top of the ice box and layed an egg, when she had ten eggs she stayed and hatched out eight chicks, she was a proud little mother, all the noise and smoke didn’t seem to bother her, the men in the bar room got quite a kick out of it. About 1914 brother Joe got married they had the reception at Lhests Hotel there is where I met Ann we didn’t have any automobile then, to get to Valley Stream, I rode the Far Rockaway trolley from Jamaica to Jamaica junction, change to Freeport trolley to stop #162 which is Terrace Place, this was a tough trip in the winter, when the sleet stuck on the overhead wire, the trolley would stop, the conductor