A boy's competition on hens :— " Hens is curious animals — they don't hare no nose, nor no teeth, nor no ears. They swallow their vittles whole and chew it up inside their crops. The outside of hens is generally put into pillows and feather dusters. The inside of a hen is sometimes filled with marbles, and shirt buttons, and such. A hen is very much smaller than a good many other animals. ; but they'll dig up more cabbage plants : tban anything that ain't a hen. The j ambition of most hens is to be labelled • in the market as spring chickens."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 24 July 1896, Page 2
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