"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.

There is likely to be handsomer and stronger chicks in a house where a bold, activeeven savagebird reigns, than where the lord of the hen-house is a weak, meek creature, who bears the abuse and peckings of his wives without a remonstrance.

Day after day the cook went out into the hen-house to get eggs, and day after day there were no eggs to be found.

An' they's a tehible grand hen-house.

BEING A BIT OF AN ARTIST HE DISGUISED HIS HEN-HOUSE BY GIVING IT A WARLIKE APPEARANCE.

Is it you, Patou, good shaggy head starting out of the dark, with straws caught among your eyelashes? PATOU Which do not prevent my seeing what is plain as that hen-house rrrroof!

[He disappears in the hen-house.

[Inside the hen-house.]

I fancy some waggish native must have overheard our conversation, for early the next morning my friend, the old resident, sent to borrow chocolate, biscuits, and eggs of me, as his larder and his hen-house had been rifled during the night.

He let her go at this, and went to his hen-house, where he had a plump young Cock.

[Illustration: Mother (to little girl who had been sent to the hen-house for eggs).

Tom stopped up every cranny of the hen-house which looked in the least dangerous, with such neatness and skill that his father and uncle were quite pleased.

"What do you think of our building a boat, Tom?" said his uncle to him, a few days after he had finished the hen-house.

It was a long one, and every word of it a tribute to our magnificent Chris, who had organised a small volunteer party, attacked a strong point, and captured fifteen of the enemy and a machine-gun, for which gallant act he had been awarded the M.C. With lingering pride she went through it a second time, and only then did we see that she was staring at the paper, proudly and fiercely, through the handle of the hen-house key!

To these the bridal hen-house was appended for a kitchen.

He was only eighteen months old, when the new log-house was built; but when he saw them laying the foundation, his busy little mind began to query whether the grass would grow under it; and straightway he ran to see whether grass grew under the floor of the hen-house where he was born.

Finally, one evening when I shut the chickens up, what did these Quails do but run into the hen-house with the others and remain as the guests of our good-natured Cochins until spring!

So he sat with his back to the great hollow tree, wondering if it wouldn't be perfectly safe for him to slip up to Farmer Brown's hen-house in the dark of the next night for some fresh eggs.

"Ah done brought yo' two eggs from Farmer Brown's hen-house," he replied meekly.

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

"I didn' know what he meant, but ran for my life to the linhay, and hung up the rope, an' then to the hen-house.

Last night that Spot got into Mr. Harvey's hen-house (Harvey is my next door neighbor) and killed nineteen of his fancy-bred chickens.

In the past the repairs were confined to a coat of paint now and then, new shingles, an added hen-house, or a bay window.

Why they have got so when I sneak into the hen-house they all begin to cackle, 'I wish I was in Dixey.'"A. S. Hitchcock.

For the whole house she would now hardly get as much as the tips which the distinguished green-veiled English ladies will one day give the servant girl when she shows them the room where I was born, and the hen-house wherein my father generally imprisoned me for stealing grapes, and also the brown door on which my mother taught me to write with chalkO Lord!