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"Yes, mother and Alice and I have each given you one, and there is this one from Angel Hen-Farrell." "An egg!" Diana cried. "Father said I could have an egg for my supper. I'll have it dropped on toast. I couldn't have any of the Christmas dinner, except the oyster soup." "Oh, you poor darling!" said Peggy.
"I shut up my eyes, and I just seemed to know she was Angelica Seraphina Hen-Farrell." "She is called 'Angel' for short," he said. "Angel? What a nice name! I'm so glad we have seven hens. Don't you like odd numbers best, Mr. Farrell? I think they are much more interesting." "They say there is luck in odd numbers," he said. "Alice likes even numbers best," said Peggy.
"I'd like to send a Christmas carol, To please and cheer my dear Diana: But here's an egg Angel Hen-Farrell Has laid in her best Christmas manner." Mrs. Owen packed the egg carefully with cotton wool in a small box. She folded the paper with the verse on it and put that on top. She tied the box up with some Christmas ribbon that had come around one of Peggy's presents.
Where did the seventh come from? She counted them over and over again. There were seven. Who had brought the seventh? She asked everybody. No one knew. Suddenly, she knew as well as if she had been told. It must have been old Michael. He had brought it as a surprise when he came with the sign. And the hen's name flashed into her mind. "Mother," she said, "this is Angelica Seraphina Hen-Farrell."
Alice, followed by the other children, was going toward the house. "Well, Peggy, was it a good surprise party?" he asked. "It was great, and I got surprised myself! How nice of you to give mother Angelica Seraphina Hen-Farrell! That is her name, isn't it?" "Certainly," said Mr. Farrell. "How did you happen to know it?" "It just popped into my head," said Peggy.
It was a thrilling moment; and Angel Hen-Farrell was so proud to be the first of the hens to lay an egg that she would not stop talking about it. What she said sounded to Alice like "Cut-cut-cad-ar-cut, cadarcut, cadarcut," but Peggy said she was talking a foreign language. "I can translate it for you, Alice," she said; "it is the Rhode Island Red language." "What is she saying?"
"Yes, she would; she's a kind of even-dispositioned young one." "Yes, Alice is a darling," said Peggy. "There are other darlings round here," he said. "Yes, seven of them: Hope, Faith, and Charity Henderson; Biddy Henshaw, Rhoda Rhodes, Angel Hen-Farrell, and my own dear Henrietta Cox. Oh, there are eight I forgot Mr. Henry Cox. He's the greatest darling of them all."
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