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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hen, You 're a beautiful creature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

SCENE in a hen-roost, on a Sunday evening: "And, Pat, do you think it is right in us stealin' on the night of this houly day?" "Och, Jamie, that's a great moral question; hand us down another pullet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...Provisions begin to run low in the locker. Freshman suggests eating one another; being small, we object, on the ground that cannibalism is inconsistent with the true spirit of Christianity. At length, land, ho! Breakers; have to wade ashore. Kiss the soil of Cuba. Hunt for tortoise; find hen's-nest in bushes, - eat it (the contents). Tool-chest washed ashore; throw up intrenchments and feel better. Burrow in sand, for fear of wild beasts; do not altogether escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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