chickendom

Updated: June 2, 2025

Their collective baggage consists of a thin, half-grown chicken tied by both feet to a small bag of barley, which is to prepare it for the useful but inglorious end of all chickendom. They have imprisoned their unhappy charge in a crate that is most difficult to get at.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran