Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore (1911)
Foucher, Laure Claire, Budell, Ada · New York : Moffat, Yard and Company · leaf 73
heres a hen whohas pulled out all her feathers for the sake ofthe cock. Shell die with cold, if shes notdead already. Coo! coo I Where, where? cried the Pig-eons. In the neighbors poultry-yard. Ive asgood as seen it myself. Its hardly proper torepeat the story, but its quite true! Believe it!… … Pass it on, piped the bats. IT IS QUITE TRUE! 61 not look like the rest, and that they may at-tract the cocks attention. Thats a dangerousthing to do, for one may catch cold and die ofa fever, and they are both dead. Wake up! wake upFcrowed the Cock, andhe flew up on to the plank; his eyes were…
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