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If, then, the face of the cliffs were made up of a series of broken precipices, or if the rocks at the base projected out into the water, or if detached rocks abounded in the waters beneath, the mortality amongst the chicks would no doubt be considerable. The coast-line of Co. Donegal will illustrate the foregoing remarks.
It is said that they brood from January to April according to locality, laying from eight to twelve creamy white eggs under a bamboo clump or some dense thicket where a few leaves have been scratched together for a nest. The hen announces the laying of an egg by means of a proud cackle, and the chicks themselves have the characteristic "peep, peep, peep" of the domestic birds.
I had not thought the place was there, to tell the truth a modest-sized frontage in Regent Street, between the picture shop and the place where the chicks run about just out of patent incubators, but there it was sure enough.
"Yes, they're great summer layers, but the American birds will beat them hollow in winter; and I must have as steady a supply of eggs as possible. My customers don't stop eating eggs in winter, and they'll be willing to pay more for them at that season. The Leghorn is too small to make a good broiler, and as half the chicks come cockerels, we must look out for that."
Her anger waned a little, and her heart began to beat fast, but she acted with courage and promptitude. "Let un be to-night auld fox, I mean. Theer 'm more chicks than young foxes, come to think of it; an' he 'm awnly doin' what you forget to do fighting for his vixen an' cubs."
The farmyard was a very busy place. "I never saw so many pets in all my life," said Betty. But Mary knew them all. She showed them Mrs. Speckle with her family of little baby chicks that looked like fluffy, yellow balls bobbing around her. Next she pointed out Mrs. Black Hen with her larger children. Some of these chickens were losing their feathers.
I DO like Thomson. . . . Tell Austin that the GREAT EASTERN has six masts and four funnels. When I get back I will make a little model of her for all the chicks and pay out cotton reels. . . . Here we are at 4.20 at Brest. We leave probably to-morrow morning. GREAT EASTERN. Here as I write we run our last course for the buoy at the St. Pierre shore end.
'Well, that's no manner of use to me and Foxy, said Hazel practically. 'So all as I can see to do is to get married and take Foxy where there's no chicks. 'So you think of marrying? 'Ah! And I told father I'd marry the first as come. I swore it by the Mountain. 'And who came? Edward had a kind of faintness in his heart. 'Never a one. 'Nobody at all? 'Never a one.
Finally, he resolutely attacked her, whereupon she emitted a discordant shriek while seven or eight tiny yellow chicks streamed forth from underneath her; in response to her cry of distress another cock immediately appeared upon the scene and valiantly chased the disturber away.
I want one every day, then you shall sit on some, and hatch out some dear little baby chicks of your very own; and you shall live with me till you are an old, old bird, Fluffikins darling, and no one shall dare to to " she hesitated to name the dreadful word 'kill, "shall interfere with you. You are what they call the 'founder' of my fortune, you precious bird."
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