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134 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
floor, for Mr. Williams<br />
did not think it either use<br />
ful or desirable to build one.<br />
to get at the ground,<br />
Barn-yard fowls love<br />
especially in hot weather.<br />
In short, the hens had a very good house. It<br />
was as spacious as could well be expected ; it<br />
was light and airy, and it was cool and agreeable.<br />
It was also retired, and sufficiently sheltered<br />
from the storms. Still it was a cage or prison.<br />
The hens did as well as they could when they<br />
were confined to it ; but if let out occasionally,<br />
they would show their great joy, as well as<br />
their<br />
love of freedom, by snatching the green grass,<br />
and everything else they could, as well as by<br />
running this way and that, all around the dooryard<br />
and house-lot, and all over the. adjoining<br />
fields and woods.<br />
Sometimes, to gratify as well as to benefit
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