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LITTLE BROWN HEN 



Little Brown Hen is a brown Bantam. 



There are beautiful shadings of blue and red 

 and gold on her feathers, like the colors on 

 burnished metal. She is as slender and prettily 

 shaped as any bird, and her eyes are as bright as a 

 bit of glass. 



She is a gentle little thing. She will let her 

 mistress pick her up at any time, and then she will 

 crouch on her mistress's arm, talking softly with 

 little throat sounds. 



Little Brown Hen likes to see everything there 

 is to be seen. When the door is left open she 

 comes walking daintily into the house, peering this 

 way and that and making remarks to herself in a 

 low tone. 



She peeps into closets and pecks at the string 

 that ties boxes. Sometimes she flies up on the 

 mantel and looks into the jars, or listens to the 

 clock, with her head on one side. 



A place that she finds even more interesting than 

 the mantel is the dressing table in her mistress's 

 room. 



