THE GREY HEN He is a thinker.

Also that caring for said hens and ducks was merely an incident of his day's work on the large farm, he working with his laborers.

Hen. 'Tis a lye.

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

In fact, there is nothing extraordinary in eggs being eaten in Lent without scruple, considering that some theologians maintained that the hens which laid them were animals of aquatic extraction.

The hen had become a trespasser.

Once a hen and a jackal were great friends, and they decided to have a feast and each brewed beer for the occasion; the hen brewed with rice, and maize and millet and the jackal brewed with lizards, locusts, frogs and fish.

The black hen was settin' on them, but I drove her away, and you can hear her cackling.

You'd think, to see her, that the hens and the cows and the colts and even the old apple trees was all silver and gold and diamonds in her eyes, she takes on so about 'em.

PHEASANT-HEN Your song then is a matter of importance?

"As I was saying, Mr. Mock Hen is a very remarkable character," responded Miss Fanny.

THE PHEASANT-HEN But what night is there for you to rout? CHANTECLER

The hen was old and tough and most probably a grandmother of many years' setting, but she was a welcome contribution to their evening meal.

THE PHEASANT-HEN He is a Cock, moreover, for whom that fact is not the only thing in the world!

The hens are excellent layers, and their eggs are of a very large size.

Upon my word, the hen who hatched such birds should be a proud, if anxious, mother."

Hens are the forlornest of all created animals when it rains.

A hen, she said, was a hospitable bird, and always laid more eggs than she wanted, on purpose to give her mistress to make puddings and custards with.

The hens, in general, are the most delicate.

The five hens were creatures of mediocrity, deserving no special mentionall very well for laying eggs and similar domestic duties, but from an intellectual point of view simply napoo, as the polyglot stylists have it.