"The sight of us'd frighten the whole rebel army, if we don't come on them aisy loike, as the fox said when he whisked into the hen-house.

Raids upon hen-roosts were about the most prominent results of the experiment, though said raids were magnified by the Rads into grand victories over Confeds.

EXERCISE - Slovenliness I Give moderate or accurate utterance to the following ideas: The burning of the hen-coop was a mighty conflagration.

" Apropos of this, he said, "Here is a hen-pheasant from Shan Liangand in season!

Hen turkeys are preferable for boiling, on account of their whiteness and tenderness, and one of moderate size should be selected, as a large one is not suitable for this mode of cooking.

Poets are fond of speaking of the nightingale as being the hen-bird, and Shelley follows this precedent.

There were some smooth white stones the size of hen eggs arranged around a flower bed in the yard, and Davy stood near these stonesand now, quick as a flash, he stooped down and picked one up.

Thirdly, by compounds or phrases including some distinctive term: as, Mr. Murray, Mrs. Murray; Englishman, Englishwoman; grandfather, grandmother; landlord, landlady; merman, mermaid; servingman, servingmaid; man-servant, maid-servant; schoolmaster, schoolmistress; school-boy, school-girl; peacock, peahen; cock-sparrow, hen-sparrow; he-goat, she-goat; buck-rabbit, doe-rabbit; male elephant, female elephant; male convicts, female convicts.

A crow in the distance says caw, caw in a meditative voice, as if he, too, were thinking of days past; and not even the scream of a hen-hawk, off in the pine-woods, breaks the spell that is upon us.

Little Mary hears the large hens cackle, and you would laugh loud to hear her try to imitate them.

YOUNG, L. L. The little small red hen magic drawing book.

INGREDIENTS.1 large hen lobster, 1 oz. fresh butter, 1/2 saltspoonful of salt, pounded mace, grated nutmeg, cayenne and white pepper to taste, egg, and bread crumbs.

Hen-harriers fly low over heaths or fields of corn, and beat the ground regularly like a pointer or setting-dog.

He once had the hen-fever badly, and he don't like to recall his sufferings.

Hen-coops, chairs, half-a-dozen flower-pots containing sickly specimens of plants, and all other movables being cleared from the upper deck, we set sail, and shot the bridge very neatly, only having a few inches of daylight between the upper deck and the wooden beams upon which the roadway rests.

The hen rock, supposing that it was the voice of her mate, turned round to look.

"De nigger at de camp-groun' Dat kin loudest sing an' shout, Am gwine ter rob some hen-roos' Befo' de week am out.

Ida wouldn't demeange herse'f to rob nobody's hen-roostand, any way, dem old chickens

There was a sort of brigand's supper in the old bricked kitchen, with the row of dead rats lying in the moonlight against the hen-runs outside, and after thirty minutes or so of rest, Cossar roused them all to the labours that were still to do.

At first she had locked hen self in her room nearly every day, and, with her face buried in her Indian suit, cried to go back.

As he was also sheriff, constable, and justice of the peace, I did not think it worth while to argue the question, although I had no more thought of being called up to pay a dog tax than a hen tax or cat tax.

O sister, never yield to fears W hen tempests roar aloud, E 'en then, the bow of hope appears, R ich hues bedeck yon cloud.

Don't you?" They made a few hen-tracks.

" "There's one thing I notice," said Miss Laura, "and that is that your drinking fountains must be a great deal better than the shallow pans that I have seen some people give their hens water in.

For "auld lang syne" I'll not maltreat Yon pseudo-Tinker, though the Cheat, Ay sly as thievish Reynard, Instead of mending kettles, prowls To make foul havock of my fowls, And decimate my hen-yard.