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He would gladly do all the work if somebody else would do the chores, he thinks, and yet I doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything in the world, or was of much use as a man, who did not enjoy the advantages of a liberal education in the way of chores. A boy on a farm is nothing without his pets; at least a dog, and probably rabbits, chickens, ducks, and guinea-hens. A guinea-hen suits a boy.
You won't like to leave home, so I'll go to her, and you shall see your guinea-hen in ten minutes." Rose hurried away, filled with joy at the thought that soon she would return to Susan with her lost bird. Miss Barbara's maid, Betty, was the first person she saw on reaching the Attorney's house. Rose said she must see Barbara and was shown into a parlor where the young lady sat reading a book.
"Certainly I DO long to see my pretty guinea-hen once more; but I was not thinking of her just then I was thinking of my father." Now Susan had heard her mother often, in the course of this day, wish that she had but money enough in the world to pay John Simpson for going to serve in the militia instead of her husband.
Even her new bonnet, in which she had expected to be so much admired, now only served to hide her blushing face. "I am glad she saw the guinea-hen," cried Rose, who now held it in her hands. "Yes," said Philip, "she'll not forget Mayday in a hurry."
Kedzie was thrilled at his autocratic manner. He scared off the ghost of Magruder. Ferriday pondered aloud the bill of fare as if it were the plot of a new feature film. "Capon en casserole, milk-fed guinea-hen escoffier, plover en cocotte, English golden pheasant, partridge do any of those tiresome things interest you?"
It is the guinea-hen. She has a grey body, plump as a sack of meal, with little white speckles, a funny neck and such a small head with a tuft on top. She screeches horribly and Marmaduke calls her "Miss Crosspatch." But the turkey with his proud walk is just funny. And yet Farmer Green says he hasn't any sense of humour. Ask your father how that can be if he is funny. "Mr.
I often make trips to the kitchen to tell Mary that "the dinner was great," or that "Mrs. Kyrle wants the receipt for that pudding," or that "my friend Kyrle asks if he may see you make a salad dressing;" but "don't do it, Mary; let the secret die with you." The cook cackles, like the guinea-hen that she is, but the dishes are none the worse for the commendation.
She drew a ring from her finger a seal; it was the seal of peace no great value but a well-cut bird a bird for the chief falconer a guinea-hen, with its appropriate cry, its polite motto, "Come back, come back;" and she gave it as a pledge that the ladies would come back another day, and see another hawking; and the gentlemen were pleased, and the aggrieved attendant falconers pacified by a promise of another heron from the heronry at Clarendon Park; and the clouded faces brightened, and "she smoothed the raven down of darkness till it smiled," whatever that may mean; but, as Milton said it, it must be sense as well as sound.
"That is nice, and I have a little bit of good news for you besides here," she said, pulling out a purse, in which there was money. "We'll get the guinea-hen back again we have all agreed about it. This is the money that has been given to us in the village this May morning. At every door they gave silver. See how generous they have been twelve shillings. Now we are a match for Miss Barbara.
Some time ago we had fine guinea-fowls of our own, and I made bold, not thinking, to be sure, that all our own would die away from us, as they have done, to give a fine couple last Christmas to Susan Price, and very fond and pleased she was at the time, and I'm sure would never have parted with the hen with her good-will; but if my eyes don't strangely mistake, this hen, that comes from Miss Barbara, is the selfsame identical guinea-hen that I gave to Susan.
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