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Updated: June 12, 2025
The attorney's daughter had, whilst Rose opened her negotiation, measured the depth of her purse with a keen eye; and her penetration discovered that it contained at least ten shillings. With proper management she had some hopes that the guinea-hen might be made to bring in at least half the money.
"No, it is not Susan's guinea-hen," said Miss Barbara, coloring furiously, "it is mine, and I have made a present of it to Miss Somers." At the sound of Bab's voice, Philip turned round, his face ablaze with anger. "What is the matter, Philip?" asked Miss Somers in a soothing voice, but Philip was not in the mood to be soothed.
"Perhaps," said Miss Somers, "Susan will be more careful now that she has had so hard a lesson. Shall we see? Philip will, I am sure, carry the guinea-hen back to her, if we wish it." "If you please, ma'am," said Barbara sulkily. So the guinea-hen was given to Philip, who set off with joy and was soon in sight of Farmer Price's cottage.
Susan knew that she must accept the present gladly, just as she would give one gladly. She was much touched by the kindness of her friends, but she took the purse as simply as she would have given it. "Well," said Rose, "shall I go back for the guinea-hen?" "The guinea-hen!" said Susan, starting from a dream into which she had fallen as she looked at the purse.
When Rose, however, learned that her friend's guinea-hen was kept a prisoner by Barbara, she was hot with indignation, and at once ran back to tell the story to her companions. As Susan entered the cottage parlor, Farmer Price drew his chair close to his wife. "You see there is something amiss with me," he said; "I must tell you what it is."
When this operation was successfully performed, which it certainly could never have been if Philip had not held the hen for Susan, he recollected that his mother had sent him with a message to Mrs. Price. This message led to another quarter of an hour's delay; for he had the whole history of the guinea-hen to tell over again to Mrs.
The woman came close up to the dressing-table, and said, "I never like to speak till I'm sure, ma'am, and I'm not quite sure in this case, ma'am, but still I think it right to tell you what crossed my mind about this same guinea-hen, ma'am, and you can ask about it or do as you feel best, ma'am.
I would not be her for all the guinea-hens, or guineas either, in the whole world. Why, the guinea-hen won't make her happy, and you'll be happy even without it, because you are good. Let me come and help you to-morrow," she went on, looking at Susan's work, "if you have any more mending to do I never liked work till I worked with you.
"The person from whom I come does not wish either to borrow or to beg, but to pay for what she asks," answered Rose. Then opening her well-filled purse, she held out to Barbara a bright shilling, saying, "Now please be so good as to give me Susan's guinea-hen." "You may keep your shilling," replied Barbara.
Barbara shook her head. A fifth shilling was offered, but Barbara, seeing that she had the game in her own hands, was silent. Then Rose threw down shilling after shilling, till twelve bright pieces lay on the table, and her purse was empty. "Now you may take the guinea-hen," said Barbara.
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