THE WORLDLY CHICKEN
(Original by "Penny Ha'penny, aged 12, HataitaL)
■' ' "Oh, dear what is the use of staying in this stuffy old tun," sicrhed the discontented chicken. . ' .»" 1™ "Cluck, cluck," answcied his mother, meaning "Don't be silly" and waddled off. . • * >■
; . I know, I>ll go and see tho world." So when the farmer was collecting the eggs, the chiekea slipped outside the door. "I\ Tow I'm on my war " he said. But soou he. felt so tired, and also it was growing quite cold. '"Oh, what shall I do?" he cheeped! ■ ."What is the matter? Can I help?"'. The chicken looked up. There in tront.of him (although he did not know it) was a fairy. After he had "ot over his suipuso he- said: "I want.tosee tho big, wide world." "" "You silly chick," exclaimed tho fairy. "Why don't you go back?" "I don't want to," answered the chicken. ' thou^htTh aS a y°U know»'fairics never like to sco anyone unhappy, «o »he
"How would you like to live in an Easter esei" '.'.What's that?" said the chick. 'w?!V - 1? us » cfc°colato egg that children eat at Easter time." ■ "AH right, I'll go." . ."Then hop three times," commanded the fairy. ■ Chicken obeyed Then ho found himself m a shop full of Easter eggs; Oh, how happy he was. "Now I can see the big, wide world," he cried. So if yoii saw an Easter egg with a specially large chick m it, that is who it was, - bo '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 10
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245THE WORLDLY CHICKEN Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 10
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