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Updated: June 11, 2025
Another day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out together; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove. Soon afterwards a cat met them, and said, 'Where are you going? And Chanticleer replied, 'All on our way A visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.
Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her. Then he sat down by the grave, and wept and mourned, till at last he died too; and so all were dead. There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.
And, when not wanted, the gentle creature subsided on the bench, by his wife's feet, and was sick in silence. The angels minister to the tyrants; or the gentle, hen-pecked husband cowers before the superior partlet. Little Miss Fanny stayed on deck, as well as her sister, and looked at the stars of heaven, as they began to shine there, and at the Foreland lights as we passed them.
I'm not such a fool, but I know how to put this and that together, though he thinks I don't know of his doings; but I'll be even with you, Meg Partlet, yet you trollop; and all this was delivered in renewed floods of tears, and stentorian hysterics, while she shook her fat red fist in the air, at the presumed level of Meg's beautiful features.
So the Cock ran to the Linden, and said: 'Dear good friend Linden, give me some of your leaves, the leaves I'll give to the Spring, and the Spring'll give me water to give to Dame Partlet my mate, who lies at death's door in the hazel-wood. 'You'll get no leaves from me', said the Linden, 'until I get a red ribbon with a golden edge from you. So the Cock ran to the Virgin Mary.
Who funk raw-head and bloody bones" she shook with a nervous giggle "and all that sort of thing.... Would it please you to know that the plumes of my panache of ambition have been cut to the last quill that henceforth my sole aim is to rival the domestic Partlet, clucking of barnyard matters in the discreet retirement of the coop?" "You've said as much before!" he objected. "But now I mean it!
So the Charcoal-burner took pity on the Cock, and gave him a bit of charcoal, and then the Smith got his coal, and the Woodcutter his axe, and the Baker's wife her wood, and the Thresher his bannock, and the Sow her corn, and the Shoemaker his bristles, and the Virgin Mary her shoes, and the Linden its red ribbon with a golden edge, and the Spring its leaves, and the Cock his drop of water, and he gave it to Dame Partlet, his mate, who lay there at death's door in the hazel- wood, and so she got all right again.
'Dear good Virgin Mary, give me a red ribbon with a golden edge, and I'll give the red ribbon to the Linden, the Linden'll give me leaves, the leaves I'll give to the Spring, the Spring'll give me water, and the water I'll give to Dame Partlet my mate, who lies at death's door, in the hazel-wood. 'You'll get no red ribbon from me', answered the Virgin Mary, 'until I get shoes from you.
So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
Deeply absorbed, but clear in bloody resolve, March walked his horse down the turnpike in the cold sunshine and blustering air. He heard his name and looked back; had he first recognized the kindly voice he would not have turned, but fled, like a partlet at sight of the hawk, from Parson Tombs. "Howdy, John! Ought to call you Mister March, I reckon, but you know I never baptized you Mister."
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