02696cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000430011324500330015626400510018930000470024033600260028733700260031333800360033949000730037550000310044850800540047952012410053353400670177465300180184165300200185965300240187965300550190365300500195865300520200865300210206083000730208185600700215485600430222499900190226778651UtSlPG20260610134826.0mcr n260607r20261917utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aTuttle, W. C.q(Wilbur C.),d1883-196914aThe hen-punchers of Piperock 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the First September, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-05-10  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aThe hen-punchers of Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. Set around the rough-and-ready town of Piperock, it lampoons frontier entrepreneurship as cowpokes try to turn chickens and razorback hogs into a booming “ham and eggs” business.

Narrated by Ike, the tale follows his partner Magpie Simpkins, whose craving for ham and eggs sparks a scheme to corner the local egg market. A stage mishap scatters their newly bought hens and unleashes two wild razorbacks that terrorize the town. Competition arrives when Tellurium Woods and Pete Gonyer import their own hens, leading to mixed herds, a “range” dispute over grasshopper-covered hills, and a fistfight. Judge Steele tries to keep the peace by leaving the henhouse door open so each flock might “go home,” but the plan backfires when coyotes wipe out the birds. Meanwhile the hogs keep wrecking things until Jimmy Peyton shoots them and settles with trade. In the end, the partners’ grand venture collapses, and Jimmy posts a sky-high price for ham and eggs—ironically serving them their own “ham”—a comic punchline on supply, demand, and misplaced optimism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aChickens -- Fiction  aSimpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aHarper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aPiperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction  aSwine -- Fiction 0aProduced from the First September, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.4 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1917_09_03.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78651  c119369d119369