"Looks like that chicken was gettin' the best of you," he said, smiling.

Miss Trixie says they won't have any eggs from their fowls next winter; all their chickens are roosters, and all they'll do will be to sit in a row on the fence and crow!

Five milreis (one dollar and fifty cents) was cheap for a chicken, and eggs at five hundred reis (fifteen cents) apiece were a rarity.

The prairie chickens now became the musicians of the morning and evening on the uplands, with their wild and intense and almost insane chorus, repeated over and over until it seemed as if the meaning of it must be forced upon every mind like a figure in music played with greatening power by a violinist so that the heart finally almost breaks with it"Ka-a-a-a-a-a, ka, ka, ka, ka!

For example: All hawks are birds; This chicken is a bird; Therefore this chicken is a hawk.

For Pigeons' flesh he seems not much to care; Cramm'd chickens are a more delicious fare.

Fish are scarce, and beef is supposed to be dear; but when butter, eggs, and cheese bulk so largely in the diet, the half chicken, the scrap of tripe, the slice of garlic sausage, the tiny cut of beef for the ragout, cannot be heavy items.

"You're old peaches on raisin fouls, I've been told," said I. "Ker-r-rect," said he, "chickens is my best holt.

For example: All hawks are birds; This chicken is a bird; Therefore this chicken is a hawk.

Chickens, sheeps, hogs, sweet pertatersall de craps is fine dis year; All we needs is a committee foh to tote de goodies here.

Finally he answered: "Deed, I dunno, Jedge," he explained, "ceptin' 't is dat chickens is chickens and niggers is niggers.

Even the chickens had wisely remained indoors, with the exception of a single bedraggled old rooster, whose melancholy appearance added another shade of gloom to the dismal outlook.

* Prostitutes in Monte Carlo, the whole tone is prostitutional; the palm trees, it seems, are prostitutes, and the chickens are prostitutes.

The day when the children were christened Mother Carey's chickens was Nancy's tenth birthday, a time when the family was striving to give her her proper name, having begun wrong with her at the outset.

The oven should be hot and the time necessary for a large chicken will be about an hour and a half.

IV Now the Devil an Old Wife had for his Dam, I think none e'er was older: Her yearsold Parr's were nothing to them; And a chicken to her was Methusalem, You'd say, could you behold her.

The chicken was a chicken such as one dreams of.