Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 172
rd: trip noiselessly away, and late thatevening give her back those speckled eggs,slipping them under her with your hand. Shewill pluck you, but do not mind that; you andshe will be friends some day. Once I made a turkey sit in a hen-housewhere there was many a rat-hole. She hadbeen on the eggs… … THE GOBBLER. she did! I looked, and behold ! not a turkey-chick was there. The little things just out ofthe shell, obeying the wild instinct of theirnature, had scooted in the twinkling of aneye, leaving a nest of empty shells. I huntedall over the hen-house, but no sight or soundof them could be…
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