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Title: Four feet, wings, and fins
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Maskell, A. E. Anderson- Mrs
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Mrs. Ryan nodded. Well mum, Top-knot, the white one over there,has had lots of chickies, too, but she most alwaysweans them before they re big enough to take keerof thimselves. Last spring, she had nine just aspretty chicks as you iver seed in yer life, and shehed a nice little coop all to herself, but, jist likehersilf, when they was only three or four weeksold she ran off to the great big hen-roost and leftthe little chickens all alone in the coop^ How tould she ! exclaimed Rose, indignantly. Well, she did it, anyway, continued Kenny^and the little chicks peeped as hard as theycould, and ran to the roost and poked their littleheads in at the door, and there was their motheraway up on the roosting pole with the hens androosters, and wouldnt even so much as look at her 354
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Take Us Ln/ KENNY S CHICKENS. own little chicks; so they peeped the harder, andthen ran back as fast as they could to their coop,and huddled up close togither in one corner, withoutany mithers wings over thim at all. The nextmornin, there was only four little chicks. Some-thing had caught and eaten five of them in the onenight. And, when the next night come the littlechickens didnt know what to do, for they were soafraid to sleep in that coop any more; and, whatdid they do, but go to Brave and ask her to takekeer of thim. O, are you sure, right sure, Kenny ) asked Rose,looking him straight in the face. Yis, because she was setting on a nest full ofeggs of her own, and they went up to her and stucktheir little heads under her feathers, and peeped asloud as they could. At first Brave didnt want them.She was afraid they might break her eggs, and thenshe wouldnt have any chicks of her own, and shetried to drive them away, but they coaxed and theycried the harder, until she saw a great, na

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