chickeny-love

Updated: July 23, 2025

"It's more than we can afford, chickeny-love," said Mother, cheerfully. "Now run away, there's darlings I'm madly busy!" "Mother's always busy now," said Phyllis, in a whisper to Peter. Peter did not answer. He shrugged his shoulders. He was thinking. Thought, however, could not long keep itself from the suitable furnishing of a bandit's lair in the attic. Peter was the bandit, of course.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Railway Children