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...Hen. Of All the Kingdom's twelve chapter-size tales, the best demonstrate how resolutely the Crooked Creekers man age "just keepin on keepin on" until the Lord God calls them home. Depicted in the 30-odd years between World War I and Korea, the Crooked Creekers live in odd isolation from the rest of the U.S., invoke the King James version of the Good Book in rough-hewn English, react to such intrusions as World War II by sending their young men off to fight, not knowingly but instinctively, like "the old mother hen flyin at the chicken...
...have been sources of saltpeter for munitions (Kentucky's Mammoth); others provide guano fertilizer from bat droppings (100,000 tons still lie in New Mexico's Carlsbad), cool storage for beer and cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time in the 1840s (one patient died; the others got sicker...
...Boozer." In this dreadful city is set a dreadful boarding house, whose inmates, one by one, destroy Spinster Judith as barnyard fowls peck to death a sickly hen. Her latest and last landlady is Mrs. Henry Rice, with a "bad, blackhearted, slimy voice." The landlady's son, Bernie, is an atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort...
...Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post in Kabul, Afghanistan, these two enormous and very intelligent animals rode in state on the specially prepared rear seat...
Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting hen...