But an I may be so bold, thou pretty fellow, what dost thou there beneath the hedge?" "Marry," quoth merry Robin, "I sit beneath the hedge here to drop salt on the tails of golden birds; but in sooth thou art the first chick of any worth I ha' seen this blessed day.

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.

" As time went on, grandma declared that I helped her a great deal because I kept her chip-box full, shooed the hens out of the house, brought in the eggs, and drove the little chicks to bed, nights.

And then one morning I happened to see in the personal column of one of the newspapers that a woman named Eliza Shaeffer, of Horner, had day-old Buff Orpington and Plymouth Rock chicks for sale, and it started me to puzzling again.

"It is I, the vulture, son of a vulture, who steals chicks from under her mother.

[On the last rung of the ladder.] Is every one under cover?Every chick under a wing?

It is a common practice to cram young chicks with food as soon as they are born.

"I suspected the bird, and so put Chick on that lay.

HATCHING.Sometimes the chick within the shell is unable to break away from its prison; for the white of the egg will occasionally harden in the air to the consistence of joiners' clue, when the poor chick is in a terrible fix.

Full of dismay, she hurried shrieking away to tell the story of the bewitched chick at the market-cross among her gossips.

And a village of white houses of the fisher-folk gathered upon the rocks beneath the castle walls like chicks beneath the shadow of their mother's wings.

Know that such a remark is not to be endured, and permit me to tell you[Finding a CHICK between himself and the GAME COCK, he gently puts him aside, saying] Run to your mother, tot!

But about six o'clock he met Chick by appointment in Deever's house.

Caldigate was at first somewhat modest in submitting his own belongings to the females of the establishment but that feeling soon wore off, and the markings and mendings, and buttonings and hemmings went on in a strictly impartial manner as though he himself were a chick out of the same brood.

As Nick expected, he met Chick outside Superintendent Byrnes's house.

Do you not know that all the noblesse, and all the savants, and especially all the archbishops and cardinals,all, in a word, but such silly little chicks as yourself,have found out that this religious business is a joke?