grasshoppering

Updated: May 11, 2025

'I'm the most unlucky hen ever hatched! groaned poor Madam Cluck; and it did seem so, for the very next week, Speckle, the best and prettiest of the brood, went to walk with Aunt Cockletop, 'grasshoppering' they called it, in the great field across the road. What a nice time Speckle did have, to be sure; for the grasshoppers were lively and fat, and aunt was in an unusually amiable mood.

Louisa May Alcott - Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag