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Updated: June 1, 2025
"What did Mrs. Pea-Hen believe," your Aunt Amy asked, and Mrs. Gray Goose replied: "She always has looked, and always will look first after her own comfort or pleasure, no matter how much others may suffer. Any other bird on this farm would have been so ashamed, after doing what Mrs.
"Robertson's done up," said he to himself; "thae young lads are aye sae thoughtless. What deevil could he hae to say to Jeanie Deans, or to ony woman on earth, that he suld gang awa and get his neck raxed for her? And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!
Insects fill the world with the noise of their business spiders, butterflies, and centipedes, ants, beetles, and flies, and mysterious entities that crawl nameless under foot. A pea-hen shrieks in the grass, and a kite whistles aloft.
I even misdoubt much whether the less blackness of blackbird is for protection. Again, can you give me reason for believing that the merest differences between female pheasants, the female Gallus bankiva, the female of black grouse, the pea-hen, female partridge, have all special reference to protection under slightly different conditions?
There seems some chance of your starving before harvest. What a pity it is you can't eat plums in the meantime! 'If I can't eat plums, I can eat the plum-eater! quoth the Jackal; and with that he pounced on the Pea-hen, and gobbled her up. Moral It is never safe to be wiser than one's friends.
"Then, without stopping to thank us for the pleasant visit, off she flew to find another place where she could make a glutton of herself without having to pay or work. Some birds seem to think, as did Mrs. Pea-Hen, that they have nothing to do in this world but enjoy themselves; but I've lived long enough to know that we must do our full share of the work, if we want to take part in the play."
"You don't mean to say that you considered them game, did you?" said she, looking archly. "Thank you," sais I. "But now you are making game of me, Miss; that's not a bad hit of yours though; and a shot for the bank, at the eend of the year. I know all about farm things, from raisin' Indian corn down to managing a pea-hen; the most difficult thing to regulate next to a wife, I ever see."
Man made me believe they were my own eggs, else I'd never sat on them a single hour, Mrs. Pea-Hen said, as she kept on walking away with never a look at the poor little babies, and Mamma Speckle called after her: "'You was so crazy to set that you would have tried to hatch out a nest full of stones, if you couldn't have found anything better! "Mrs.
Once upon a time a Jackal and a Pea-hen swore eternal friendship. Every day they had their meals together, and spent hours in pleasant conversation. Now, one day, the Pea-hen had juicy plums for dinner, and the Jackal, for his part, had as juicy a young kid; so they enjoyed themselves immensely.
Among his best pictures are 'The Floating Feather, a feather given with singular lightness drifting in a pool, with different birds on the water and the shore a pelican prominent in Amsterdam Museum, and 'A Hen defending her Chickens against the attacks of a Pea-hen, with a Peacock, a Pigeon, a Cassowary, and a Crane, also in Amsterdam. Jan Weenix, born in 1644, died in 1719.
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