 | Mrs. Blackford (Martha) - 1828 - 206 páginas
...says, I cannot be too watchful to preserve my chickens from them ; for they are very cunning, and are always ready to seize the first opportunity of snapping...he was in about his basket. Tom immediately cried, " O, I will tell you how we will manage. Do you take out three of the pots, and give them to me ; and... | |
 | Mrs. Blackford (Martha) - 1828 - 214 páginas
...says, I cannot be too watchful to preserve my chickens from them ; for they are very cunning, and are always ready to seize the first opportunity of snapping...having had a whole brood of young ducks devoured in ou~ night, when he lived near Langholm. He t' told Tom the distress he was in about his basl Tom immediately... | |
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... I shall then be pretty sure of rearing them, if I take care always to shut them up at night, to prevent the fox from getting at them. They are nasty, greedy, cruel creatures, these foxes, and mammy says, I cannot be too watchful to preserve my chickens... 