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chick! Chick, chick, chick! Chick, chick, chick!" as if theirs were
singing on and on the same motive. To this, such hurry and it hastens as
there would be!
It seemed as if every bird on the farm felt the call and you/he/she was coming.
There were the great hens and the small hens, brown hens, black hens, white hens,
and spotted hens. There were downy chicks of child and long-that it has legs I mediate-
chickens put in order of greatness. There were proud roosters with the bright stomachers and cheerful,
shining pens. There were grandiose turkeys with necks long and great
fan-how tails. There were ducks with fat and long bodies and the great flatfeet.
Expedite, disperse precipitous! Hasten, scrub! "Clucking, snap." "You peer at-peer at." "Groo-groo."
"You swallow-swallow." "Does here here, here here." Such noise and excitement You never
felt!
Such way of involving him to table that you have never seen! All immediately were speaking. Each was
pecking at and pushing and grabbing!
A morning at the breakfast of threshing floor they told her/it Mrs. White, "Where you/he/she can Make brown
Is Betty? I have not seen her/it for two or three weeks. I am afraid she has
gone away and unknown his/her nest in some place. I desire me to know where, for turkey
eggs are scarce this year. If You four children will find his/her nest me
It will pay her ten cents for every egg in him."
The small girls were excited a lot.
"Only supposes", said Betty, that we find a nest with six eggs in him.
That will be sixty cents. What will we buy with so many money?"
"Is not him/it amusing to find Father to bring us to the shop and to leave buys us
things for a picnic?" Mary dictates.
"Oh, yes, we have a picnic", cried Peggy and Betty.
"But first", it said small Dot he/she tests, "we have to find the nest of Betty Marrone."
That a lot of day his/her children started to chase for the unknown eggs. Them
climbed above in the attic of barn and it looked in the hay. Here they founded
Mrs. Nicker on his/her nest. When they came near she ruffled on his/her pens
and it gave an angry snap. "Is not frightened Betty", I laughed; "we am