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38 Chit-Chat by Puck.
the cow-shed. After many repeated. failures they
all succeeded at last in accomplishing this difficult
task.
“Cheep, cheep, cheep! We must learn that as
well,” cackled the three aristocratic chickens, and
flapped their wings, but her ladyship became quite
angry, and said, “It won’t do for fine, well-bred
young chickens to join in such carryings-on. You
mustn’t do that! If one is to be regarded as
respectable in this world, one must preserve a
demeanour prim and genteel.”
The little lady chickens tripped demurely and
elegantly by the side of their mamma, and never
went anywhere by themselves to play, for that
wouldn’t have been thought respectable: but all
three became dreadfully lean, and were never seen
in high feather; they would so have liked to
accompany the other hens under the floor of the
cow-shed, for there was plenty of food to be got
there, but, dear me, that would never have done
for stylish young chickens!
One morning only two of the elegant chickens
awoke—the third had died from starvation. My
lady was deeply touched by the occurrence, “ but,”
she said, “better that this should happen than that
the departed dear one should so far have forgotten
her good manners as to descend to the floor of the
cow-shed. Where she now lies, she has at least not
a stain upon her white feathers.”
Her ladyship winked with one eye, cocked her
head on one side, and gave a cackle, which meant
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