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Updated: June 26, 2025
Who has not frequently reflected on all the momentous things that we get out of that modest animal, the ornament of poultry-yards, that provides us at once with a soft pillow for our bed, with succulent flesh for our tables, and eggs?
Even the chickens stood about in dejected attitudes, and stray roosters from other poultry-yards found refuge in Tom's coop without first being subjected to a trial of strength and skill by Tom's game-cock. But no man in my condition of mind could be easily depressed by bad weather.
An old man of Dombes who foretold the future by shaking grains of barley on a sieve, was thrown into a well. However, each night the monster still raided the poultry-yards and the cattle-sheds. The frightened peasants barricaded themselves in their houses.
Bears, catamounts, and wolves swarmed in the denser parts of the forests, and in the winter the two last named beasts were a great annoyance to the settlers by the boldness with which they invaded the cattle and poultry-yards and pig-pens.
It somewhat resembles the otter, and differs in shape slightly from the marten or ferret. Its teeth, however, are more like those of the pole-cat than the otter; while its tail does not possess the muscular power of the latter animal. Like the otter, it lives upon fish and frogs, but will occasionally make a marauding expedition into poultry-yards.
But Nicholl and Barbicane were awake. "A cock!" said Nicholl. "Why no, my friends," Michel answered quickly; "it was I who wished to awake you by this rural sound." So saying, he gave vent to a splendid cock-a-doodledoo, which would have done honor to the proudest of poultry-yards. The two Americans could not help laughing. "Fine talent that," said Nicholl, looking suspiciously at his companion.
At a turning of the road, as he emerged from the valley, the monster encountered a party of village girls repairing with the produce of their dairies, and of their poultry-yards, to some still far distant town, which they had hoped to reach shortly after daybreak.
As to food and lodging, that concerns the English, who have cattle in their pastures, bacon in their bacon-racks, fowls in their poultry-yards, and corn in their barns. I will present myself to General Monk with my little body of troops. He will receive me. I shall win his confidence, and take advantage of it, as soon as possible."
The fecundity of this animal, as well as its predatory skill, makes it an extremely frequent and annoying poacher on the poultry-yards of the backwoods settlers, especially in the hill districts of the Southern States, where the climate and the abundance of game appear to have developed them to an uncommon size and fierceness.
We ought to be thankful that in such matters individual freedom is somewhat hampered in our old-fashioned and quieter-going country. London Morning Post. The gape worm may be termed the bete noir of the poultry-keeper his greatest enemy whether he be farmer or fancier. It is true there are some who declare that it is unknown in their poultry-yards that they have never been troubled with it at all.
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