Four Color #1293
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Rural Free Delivery," Elmer's latest business venture—chicken farming—takes a bizarre turn when Foghorn Leghorn convinces him he’s got a laying hen capable of producing a ruby egg. Fred Abranz handles both art and inks for the story’s charmingly absurd antics, while Tony Strobl’s cover captures the chaos in bold, expressive lines. When a stolen ruby ends up in Elmer’s coop, the real trouble begins—especially when two crooks return to reclaim it, convinced Foghorn’s behind the heist.
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Elmer decides to go into the chicken raising business. Foghorn tricks him into feeding him for a month, promising he'd lay a ruby egg. Two crooks swipe a ruby from a museum and toss it in Elmer's coop while fleeing the cops. Elmer thinks Foghorn laid the ruby and takes it. That night the two crooks return to the coop and shake down Foghorn looking for the ruby.
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