Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































 -  A neighbouring farmer's wife had presented me with
some very pretty hens, who followed to the call of old Betty - Page 193
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A Neighbouring Farmer's Wife Had Presented Me With Some Very Pretty Hens, Who Followed To The Call Of Old Betty Fye's Handsome Game-Cock.

I was always fond of fowls, and the innocent Katie delighted in her chicks, and would call them round her to the sill of the door to feed from her hand.

Mrs. O - - had the same number as I had, and I often admired them when marshalled forth by her splendid black rooster. One morning I saw her eldest son chop off the head of the fine bird; and I asked his mother why she had allowed him to kill the beautiful creature. She laughed, and merely replied that she wanted it for the pot. The next day my sultan walked over to the widowed hens, and took all his seraglio with him. From that hour I never gathered a single egg; the hens deposited all their eggs in Mrs. O - -'s hen-house. She used to boast of this as an excellent joke among her neighbours.

On the 9th of June, my dear little Agnes was born. A few days after this joyful event, I heard a great bustle in the room adjoining to mine, and old Dolly Rowe, my Cornish nurse, informed me that it was occasioned by the people who came to attend the funeral of Phoebe R - -. She only survived the removal of the family a week; and at her own request had been brought all the way from the - - lake plains to be interred in the burying ground on the hill which overlooked the stream.

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