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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Amarilly," cried Cory, "we kin hev real flowers fer nuthin' and pies and ice-cream, and we kin cuddle little chicks like ma told me, and make daisy chains, and hev picnics in the woods. Oh " Words also proved inadequate to Co's anticipations. "Amawilly, we kin play wiv little lambs," lisped Iry.
If we had good luck with the sixty chicks, how many would grow up?" "Fifty ought to." "Of these fifty, can we count on twenty-five pullets?" "Yes." "That's what I was getting at. You think we might, by good luck, raise twenty-five pullets from each hundred eggs. I'll cut that in the middle and be satisfied with twelve, or even with ten.
Sailing about high above a busy flock of them makes one feel like an old mother hen protecting her chicks. The pilot of an avion de chasse must not concern himself with the ground, which to him is useful only for learning his whereabouts.
"I would have lent it to her, but she's just the kind of a girl that wouldn't take care of anything, unless it was her own, and I knew it would be ruined in one day. "It took me a whole year to save money enough to get it. I sold eggs to buy it, and, oh, golly! didn't I coax those chicks to lay, though!" Varrick could not help but smile as he looked at her. And she was so innocent, too.
The chicks are sometimes domesticated, but even when born in captivity, it is said they are difficult to tame and soon wander away. The birds are omnivorous, feeding on insects, grubs, reptiles, flower buds, young shoots, and grain. It is held sacred by some religious castes and we saw dozens of the birds wandering about the grounds of the temples in Benares, Agra, and Delhi.
Turkey Proudfoot ordered her. Henrietta Hen said flatly that she wouldn't. "There are no bugs no worms in the gravel," she told him. "My chicks have a right to go anywhere on this farm." Turkey Proudfoot looked at her in amazement. Never before had Henrietta Hen spoken to him in such a way. "Hoity-toity!" he exclaimed. "Aren't you forgetting your manners, Henrietta?" "No, I'm not!" she snapped.
She communicated it:'The Princess Nikolas has a son! Captain Con tossed his newspaper to the floor, crying: 'To-day the city'll be a chimney on fire, with the blacks in everybody's faces; but I must go down. It's hen and chicks with the director of a City Company. I must go. Did you say, madam? Patrick inquired. 'A son, said Mrs. Adister.
After the bitter winter and wet summer of 1879, there was a complaint, too well founded, that the partridges were diminished in numbers. But the crows were not. There were as many of them as ever. When there were many partridges the loss of a few eggs or chicks was not so important. But when there are but few, every egg or chick destroyed retards the re-stocking of the fields.
"Let us try the floor above, and the towers; for of a surety they have not come this way." And the party retraced its steps, leaving the apartment empty. Behind the panel, the girl stood shrinking close to De Conde, her hand still in his. "Where now?" he asked. "Or do we stay hidden here like frightened chicks until the war is over and the Baron returns to let us out of this musty hole?"
"A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged." I answer: Admirable for the purposes of the inaugurator of an age of prose and reason. Do you ask me whether Pope's verse, take it almost where you will, is not good? "To Hounslow Heath I point, and Banstead Down; Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my own."
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