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Updated: May 28, 2025
I may quit my riverside residence and have a waterproof fowl-run in another street; but when I see somebody else taking his children out in my old boat, I shall only bite my lip and wish that I had quietly restocked my chicken-run.
"Oh, no," Alicia told him sweetly, "we're laying out a chicken-run." "Er what I came over to say, is that I've got some fine bulbs, myself, this year, particularly fine bulbs eh, Schmetz? and more than I need for myself. Will you share them with me, Miss Smith? Please! I well, I'd be really grateful if you would," said this overgrown boy. "We'll be enchanted," Alicia said instantly.
In odd moments Hiram had cut and set a few posts, bought poultry netting in Scoville, and enclosed Mrs. Atterson's chicken-run. She had taken his advice and sent for eggs, and already had four hens setting and expected to set the remainder of the of the eggs in a few days. Sister took an enormous interest in this poultry-raising venture.
The next morning he sauntered with purposeful steps past the long blank wall on his way to the chicken-run and piggery that stood at the bottom of the meadow. The three children were perched at their accustomed look-out, and their range of sight did not seem to concern itself with Octavian's presence.
I could hear Struthers calling thinly from the kitchen door to Whinnie, who apparently was making a belated effort to get my chicken-run gate open and my fowls under cover. I could hear a scattering drive of big rain-drops on the roof, solemn and soft, like the fall of plump frogs. But by the time Whinnie was in through the kitchen door this had changed.
Isabel led into such queer places the potting-house, tool-shed, laundry, and even into the dairy once. Then it was Peter's turn, and he went through the chicken-run, stable-yard, and kitchen-garden, and then down the drive. When he got to the gate he hesitated, then started off down the road. "Ought we to go down here, do you think?" asked Isabel, plodding along behind him.
It is even to be believed that they eat them innocently and without knowing it, like us when we eat a Sassenage cheese. The republic of the sheep is a faithful representation of the golden age. A chicken-run is visibly the most perfect monarchic state. There is no king comparable to a cock. If he marches proudly in the midst of his people, it is not out of vanity.
Now all Wimbledon suspects that this lane was designed by the Corporation as a walk for lovers. There is evidence of the care and calculation that one spends on a chicken-run. For the Corporation, knowing the practice of lovers, has placed in the shady recesses of the lane a seat where these comical people can intertwine.
With this new human interest to absorb them the travelling companions were almost rude when Blenkinthrope tried to explain his contrivance for keeping vipers and peregrine falcons out of his chicken-run. Gorworth, to whom he unburdened himself in private, gave him the same counsel as heretofore. "Invent something." "Yes, but what?"
He tied the boat to a willow and splashed ashore. In the lower portions of the path his feet sank into patches of wet. Something which might have been and probably was a snake oozed away from the beam of his pocket torch. The clearing was much as it had been, save that the door of the chicken-run stood ajar and its feathered population was gone.
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