Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 123
; and whether it wasbecause she used to get cramp and go off the nest,or because the season was bad, or what, she nevercould tell; but every egg was addled but one, andthe one that did hatch gave her more trouble thanany chick she had ever reared. It was a fine, downy, bright yellow little… … THE YELLOW THING. or moping, but simply unlike the rest. When theother chicks hopped and cheeped on the Greenabout their mothers feet, this solitary yellow bratwent waddling off on its own responsibility, and door cluck what the speckled hen would, it went toplay in the pond. It was off one day as…
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