"The bally, blithering unnatural 'eathen hev flew the h'ivory coops.

The pheasant, thinking he saw his fellow, attacked him, struck against the glass and brought down the coop, in which he had leisure to reflect on his jealousy (Fig. 163).

"Now, young fellers," he began, "these boysuh, Mister Bill Brown an' Mister 'Gustus Grier,I says to them,in the first place, I says: 'Perfesser, these here kids don't know enough to build a chicken coop,' I says, an' Perfesser Gray he says to me, he says, he would back them fellers to build a battleship or tunnel through to Chiny, he says.

In two days Bennington was sitting up in bed, possessed of an appetite that threatened to depopulate entirely the little log chicken coop.

Dalrymple was fashioning a hen-coop out of two or three soap-boxes.

And yet, the prison-staves and hoop To let no murmur through, However hard we find the coop, Is greater still to do.

Evan says that if she does, and thus acknowledges the cat as hers, she may be deluged with bills for poultry, as he has been hearing weird tales on the train, such as are often current among commuters who are not zoologists, of a great black lynx that has been invading chicken coops and killing for pleasure, as his victims are usually left on the ground.

Go and paint the hen-coops and make water-jugs!" Jean silently shakes his head, and only replies to all these railleries by a kindly smile.

My chain permitted me to move only about eighteen inches to the right or left; and, having borne this confinement for several weeks, my very heart leaped at the pitiful consolation of being able to range, without constraint, the miserable coop in which I was immured.

He says: "The London chicken-butchers, as they are termed, are said to be, of all others, the most expeditious and dexterous feeders, putting up a coop of fowls, and making them thoroughly fat within the space of a fortnight, using much grease, and that perhaps not of the most delicate kind, in the food.

'Listen to me, now: if any one of your ancestors for twenty-four generations back had ever done anything as decent as robbing a hen-coop, it would have conferred a kind of degree of nobility upon him.

He walked over the premises sketching out coops and runs with a sweeping arm, and he found the kitchen capable of accommodating a series of incubators and foster mothers with the very minimum of alteration.

"'I can't find the banker man, Governor; he's skipped the coop.

They swept off the hen-coops, and ripped four or five water-casks from their lashings, even, as if the latter had been pack-thread.

If you hadn't come to look we might have been forced into taking that old dark coop over on Simpson Street.

One evening when I came out from Boston, I was met by a doleful deputation at the front gate, with the news that when the coop was visited that morning after breakfastthey visited the coop every morning before they went to schoolthe pullet was found perched on a cross-bar in a high state of nerves, and the shell of the Easter egg broken and entirely eaten out.

Meantime Clerk McGuire was handed the hatchet, and approached the coop with obvious misgivings.

" "I don't want a chicken-coop," said Patty, laughing; "I've no chickens, and I don't want any.