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"'Excuse me there's just one of those lovely little feathers the least bit in the world "I believe it was actually between his lips, when we were interrupted, and I had to put it tidy myself. But we might all be plucked as bare as poor young Scratchfoot before Flaps would think of smoothing us down. Just hear how he snores! Ah! it's a trying world, but I never complain."
Misery! Horror! Despair! cried all the fowls at once as soon as they saw him. 'The murderer has slain young Scratchfoot the cock, and is just going to roast him! "'You're a dead man, growled Flaps to the rat-catcher, as soon as he got up to the loft. "'I'm not so sure of that, my fine cur, said the man, taking hold of the cudgel he had brought with him, and tucking up his sleeves.
"It is very near," said Flaps; "but I may as well tell you the truth at once it's a farmyard." "Oh! " said all the fowls. "We may be roasted, or have our heads chopped off," whimpered the young cockerels. "Well, Scratchfoot was roasted at Hencastle," said Flaps; "and he wasn't our only loss.
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