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The one reliable guide for temperature is the action of the chicks. If they are cold they will crowd toward the source of heat; if too warm they will wander uneasily about; but if the temperature is right, each chick will sleep stretched out on the floor. The cold chicken does not sleep at all, but puts in its time fighting its way toward the source of heat.
"Then the thing is as good as done," Mr. Clarence announced. "Hazen will be as set up as an old hen to have two chicks. He likes you, Ted." "And well he may," growled Grandfather Fernald. "But for Ted's prayers and pleas he would not now be here." "Yes, Hazen will be much pleased," reiterated Mr. Clarence Fernald, ignoring his father's comment.
I am nearly knocked down by the big sheep-dogs; the calves come rushing with awkward gambols towards me for a bit of the fowls' bread, whilst the dogs look out for a bone; but, in the midst of the confusion, the poultry hold their own; indeed, an anxious hen eager to secure a breakfast for her chicks will fly at a big dog, and beat him away from a savoury morsel.
In the afternoon I took a long walk with the chicks in the woods; long at least for the little legs of S and M , who carried baby. We came home by the shore, and I stopped to look at a jutting point, just below which a small sort of bay would have afforded the most capital position for a bathing house.
"But, you see," she continued, "if I did not cover my baby Meadow-Lark chicks they would get very, very cold, for they have little bald heads with not a single feather upon them to protect them! So, while I get wet, it does not matter so much, for I know I have kept my little Meadow-Lark chicks dry and warm and cozy and that, of course, makes me very happy!
We had employed Laban to look for them, and he had charged us thirty dollars for labours that were in vain. "Ajax," said I, "we have eaten the Swiggarts' salt, not to mention their fatted chicks, their pickled peaches, their jams and jellies. It's an outrage to insinuate, as you do, that these kind neighbours are common thieves." My brother looked quite distressed. "Of course Mrs.
But suddenly the door of the passage leading to the parsonage flew open and swung back against the wall, to admit a handsome child-like girl of twenty-two, who carried something hidden in her apron. 'Thirteen of them, she called out. 'All the eggs were good. And she opened out her apron and revealed a brood of little shivering chicks, with sprouting down and beady black eyes.
"Anything is liable to happen on a farm where you get girls off apple trees and turtles off Scotchmen's noses." "Pretty near ready for dinner?" called her aunt, looking in for a moment as they completed the work of filling the incubator. "We've just finished," said Edith. "Bob said I might take care of the incubator and keep the record of the chicks, if you were willing, Aunt Bettie."
Pheasants mingled with the fowls, and, like the fowls, only ran aside out of the way of people. In early summer there were tiny partridge chicks about, which rushed under the coop. The pheasants sometimes came down to the kitchen door, so greedy were they.
"I didn't have a chance to see them," she replied. "That's a pity," he told her. And then he asked her, "What's that blue tag hanging from your pen?" "That " said Henrietta "that means that my chicks won the first prize." "She helped win it herself," cried old dog Spot, who was yelping about the wagon. "Our little speckled hen was the best hen at the fair!" "Nonsense!" Henrietta exclaimed.
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