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If she had put in crocodile's eggs and hatched out White Orpingtons, there might have been something to write to Country Life about."
On looking closer he noticed that she was not followed by as many Plymouth Rocks as on the last occasion. "She seems to be going in for Buff Orpingtons," he said to himself. "It's a fine thing to see you again, and your reverence is looking well. I hope you've been lucky in America?"
"Some prize Orpingtons, did I understand?" says he, in a soft, purry voice. "I don't recall having " Then he gets a good look at Old Hickory, and his tone changes sudden. "What!" he snaps. "You, Ellins? How did you get in here?" "With those fool chickens," says the boss. "But but I didn't know," goes on Mr. Nash, "that you were interested in that sort of thing."
Jungle Cock has been disturbed in his morning meal. Did you know that from his ancestors are descended in direct lineage all the Plymouth Rocks and the White Leghorns of the poultry yard, all the Buff Orpingtons that win gold medals at poultry shows? Other food stuffs India originated and shared.
"Ah, just describe the birds," says I. "Silver-slashed blue Orpingtons, you know." Does it work? Say, in less than two minutes we was being towed through a windin' passage that fin'lly ends in front of a circular shaft with a cute little elevator waitin' at the bottom. "Pass two," says the guard.
From the dressed carcasses with feet and head removed, the finest set of poultry judges in the world would be hopelessly lost in a collection of Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds and Orpingtons and, I dare say, one could run in a few Langshans and Minorcas if it were not for their black pin feathers. What Breed. The writer has great admiration for breeding as an art.
I have a few Orpingtons on my place; but oh, by the way, Ellins, are these really intended for me?" "With Torchy's compliments," says Old Hickory. "By Jove!" says Gedney. "I I'm greatly obliged truly, I am. What plumage! What hackles! And er just leave that terminal lease, will you? I'll have it renewed and sent up. Would you mind too if I sent you out by the Broadway entrance?"
Bless my traveling bag, Tom! I mean to be present at your final triumph." "What will happen to your buff Orpingtons while you are gone?" asked the young inventor, gravely. "I have got my servant trained to look after those chickens," declared Mr. Damon. "And this invention of yours is really more important than even my buff Orpingtons."
However strange such a choice might seem to those of restless spirit, it was not more so than that of others who, careless of themselves, preferred a hole in the dust of the upper yard among the Buff Orpingtons, and the grilling heat of the midsummer sun. There must be differences of taste here as elsewhere.
The cow-house stood at the junction of the garden with a small paddock, an isolated survival, in a suburban neighbourhood; of what had once been a small farm. Luke Steffink was complacently proud of his cow-house and his two cows; he felt that they gave him a stamp of solidity which no number of Wyandottes or Orpingtons could impart.