I can hardly believe this is the little Hen I used to make mud pies with.

Fried Chicken. Cut a fat hen into pieces at the joints and boil until tender; season and fry with 1 onion and 2 green peppers chopped fine.

I am so mad as a wet hen.

Near the chickens' shelter the burnished old gobbler spread his tail and dragged his wings and puffed his feathers and swelled himself red in the face, to the great admiration of a demure gray-brown little turkey hen.

And when the hawk comes hovering near, The speckled hen gives a cry of fear, And the little chickens, every one, Up to her in a moment run, Safely hide beneath her wings.

The temporary shanty had given place to a comfortable log cabin; and although the chimney was built of small sticks placed one on the other, and filled in between with clay, occupying almost one whole end of the cabin, it showed that the inward man was duly attended to; and the savory fumes of venison, of the prairie hen and other good things went far to prove that even backwoods life was not without its comforts.

"I'll be some glad ter git away from these here fussy old hens fer a spell," he grumbled, as he slammed the vial back on the bureau; but Angy looked so reproachful and grieved that he felt ashamed of his ingratitude, and asked with more gentleness: "Yew goin' ter miss me, Mother?"

"Stop, you wretch!" cried the curate, as though giant hens were the commonest facts in life.

On the way we passed our Indian friends, themselves bound thither; both the men and the women bore burdensthe burdens of some of the women, poor things, were heavyand even the small naked children carried the live hens.

Pigeon flyers, dog fanciers, gossipping vagrants, crying children, old iron, stray hens, women with a passion for sitting on door steps, men looking at nothing with their hands in their pockets, ancient rags pushed into broken windows, and the mirage of perhaps one policeman on duty constitute the sights in the neighbourhood.

A. is busy reading Southey to her "children"; baby is off searching for eggs, and her felicity reached its height when she found an ambitious hen had laid two in her carriage, which little thought what it was coming to the country for.

Why, a great anxious mother-hen, all tawny-colored and white, with thirteen downy little chickens, who were frightened enough, and wondering where in the wide world they were.

If you think a Hawk has stolen a pet Hen, look well before you shoot; and if he has rusty-red shoulders count yourself mistakenand let him go.

I paid a large bill for the care of what might have been a splendid collection, and meekly bought that faithful old hen with her large family.

Of what breed is she? THE TURKEY She is just a good old-fashioned Gascon hen, born in the neighbourhood of Pau. THE BLACKBIRD [Thrusting out his head.]

There was chicken for dinner, much to the grief of a little boy of the household, who had lost his favorite hen to provide for the feast.

In purchasing these last it is important to choose fertile hens, which are indicated by red feathers, black wings, unequal toes, large heads, combs upstanding and heavy, for such hens are more likely to lay.

Mr. Mowbray once kept an account of the number of eggs produced by this prolific bird, with the following result:From the 25th of October to the 25th of the following September five hens laid 503 eggs; the average weight of each egg was one ounce five drachms, and the total weight of the whole, exclusive of the shells, 50-1/4 pounds.

110 With these the swan's maternal care Had sent her scarce-fledged cygnet heir: The hen (though fond and loath to part) Here lodged the darling of her heart: The spider, of mechanic kind, Aspired to science more refined: The ass learnt metaphors and tropes, But most on music fixed his hopes.

And remember, when chickens go to the A HEN fields CHANTECLER the foremost THE HENS ALL TOGETHER walks ahead!

The women screamed, and like so many frightened hens, ran into the corner of the room furthest out of reach of my Lord Protector's police-patrol, the men immediately forming a bulwark in front of them.

Sparrows are busy in the gardenthe hens are by far the most numerous now, half a dozen together perch on the bushes.

Harriet's old gray hen, a garrulous fowl, came and stood on one leg and looked at me first with one eye and then with the other.

You know the keen insistence of the hungry hen!

More shoes and more cloth were concealed in a hen-house, under a series of nests where several innocent hens were "sitting."