Bishop Gerald Kennedy tells this story:
The late Bishop Francis J. McConnell was once president of DePauw University. He always liked to be on the land, and after retirement he lived on a farm in Ohio. When he was at DePauw he had a small acreage where he raised chickens. He said that everything went all right except in the middle …
New York: The H.W. Wilson Co., 1957, REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1956-1957, by A. Craig Baird