Word: henning
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...neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early...
...rooster the same as a hen...
...Salina, Kan., Mrs. Bert Phelps prepared a Gore County chicken for cooking. Frugally, as well as to give Mr. Phelps a giblet he likes, she split the hen's gizzard, peeled out the musk. In the olive green debris were flecks of metallic yellow. A jeweler found them, gold, worth...
...doctors to save her husband, the statesmen to rule his realm. As presiding officer of a specially created Council of State she signed for His Majesty hundreds of state papers, among which the following Order in Council was not the least: "It shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they are told in. Uncle Cedric, onetime gnu-hunter, all-time bore, is shot by the vindictive Charlotte; Archibald wins a bride by his one accomplishment, the imitation of a just-successful hen; Roland gets into terrible trouble because a snake has been put in somebody else's bed-and so on. When Mr. Mulliner is speaking, no one else can open his mouth-or even wants to, except for the occasional, irrepressible guffaw...