What is't, my Chicken. Jul. I wou'd go make a Visit to my Aunt, my Sister Clara's there, and I'll go fetch her home.

But we won't get money out of these cans when they're opened; it will be something better, such as sardines and hominy, preserved cream and caviar, beans and boned chicken.

The soup came from one can, the curried chicken from another, while artichokes, peas, asparagus and plum pudding shed their tin coverings to complete the meal.

If stock is not at hand, put the chicken-bones in water, with an onion, carrot, a few sweet herbs, a blade of mace, pepper and salt, and stew for 3 hours.

Desert Indians all eat chuck-wallas, big black and white lizards that have delicate white flesh savored like chicken.

"Mr. Prettyman," said sir William to lord Martin, "unites the heart of a chicken to the most absolute skill in the small sword that ever I saw.

"He was chicken-hearted.

" "Ho, Lame Chicken!" called another, blocked by the hop-scotch.

"Ho, Lame Chicken! Do not bump me.

Mother and I must get him a good supper: cold chicken, canned raspberries, currant jelly, ham, hot biscuit, plain cake and fruit cake andbutter andtea.

" Before Randal could reply Aunt Plumy approached like a maternal hen who sees her chicken in danger.

See, it is not bad," and he deftly spread on a napkin before Helen cold chicken, sandwiches, and fruit.

" "Why," said Andy, with increasing interest, "what may it be, now?" "Well," answered Luke, "it's a chicken.

It's a chicken that walks backward.

"A chicken that walks backward?" "Yes," answered Luke Belding, soberly.

I'd be almost tempted to sell a half-interest in the chicken for a good square meal.

The rooster went strutting around the tent backwards as rapidly and steadily as a normal chicken.

See here," and he picked up the chicken and extended its feet.

Billy was quite taken with the chicken, and finally decided to try and place the boy with his freak.

He told Andy that one of the side shows had agreed to try Luke and his wonderful chicken for at least a week for the food and keep of both.

We could hear the young ones croaking within; so, with a hatchet we broke one of the eggs, and took the chicken out unfledged; it was bigger than twenty vultures put together.

And now, resolving to strike a bold stroke, as I was already become a high flyer, and perfect in my art, I no longer confined myself to chicken flights, but getting upon Olympus, and taking a little light provision with me, I made the best of my way directly towards heaven.

I told him, he was not sensible of the danger, having lain under cover in the boat during the storm[1081]: he was like the chicken, that hides its head under its wing, and then thinks itself safe.

* Bob and I buried the Game Chicken that night (we had not much of a tea) in the back-green of his house in Melville Street, No. 17, with considerable gravity and silence; and being at the time in the Iliad, and, like all boys, Trojans, we called him Hector of course.

Piney was no chicken, but it was a soothing and original theory of the pair thus to account for the fact that she didn't swear and wasn't improper.