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    The Curly-Haired Hen
    The Curly-Haired Hen
    The Curly-Haired Hen
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    The Curly-Haired Hen

    By A. (Auguste) Vimar and Nora Kathleen Hills

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Curly-Haired Hen - A. (Auguste) Vimar

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Curly-Haired Hen, by Auguste Vimar

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      Title: The Curly-Haired Hen

      Author: Auguste Vimar

      Release Date: August 27, 2004 [EBook #13302]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CURLY-HAIRED HEN ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Hagen von Eitzen and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      Yollande appears emerging from her shroud.

      iTHE

      CURLY-HAIRED HEN

      TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY

      A. VIMAR

      TRANSLATED BY

      NORA K. HILLS

      ii

      iii

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      Mother Etienne's Farm

      CHAPTER II

      A Mother's Devotion

      CHAPTER III

      Yollande's Trousseau

      CHAPTER IV

      Father Gusson's Secret

      CHAPTER V

      Sir Booum Calls upon Mother Etienne

      CHAPTER VI

      The Separation

      CHAPTER VII

      Sir Booum's Circus

      ivCHAPTER VIII

      Mother Etienne's Dream

      CHAPTER IX

      Mother Etienne's Fortune

      CHAPTER X

      Triumph of the Ointment

      1

      CHAPTER I

      MOTHER ETIENNE'S FARM

      Oh Grandfather, tell us a story, do. You know, the one you began the other evening about Mother Etienne's big farm. You remember. The weather is so bad and we can't go out. Go on, Grandfather, please.

      Coaxingly the three children clung round their grandfather, looking at him beseechingly. He adoring the children as he did, loved to hear them plead.

      2At last he began:

      Since you have been very good, and you want it so much, I will tell you the wonderful story of Mother Etienne's farm and the still more wonderful story of what happened to one of its occupants.

      Love animals, my children, be kind to them, care for them, and you will surely have your reward.

      Mother Etienne was a good stout woman with a very kind heart. While still young she was so unfortunate as to lose her husband and her son of whom she was very fond. This made her, as you can imagine, very, very sad. She wouldn't listen to any new offers of marriage though she had plenty of them. Instead, she devoted her life, her whole existence, to the attentive, nay I ought to say, the maternal care, of the animals on her farm, making them as comfortable as could be.

      She had, as I said before, a most excellent heart, the good Mother Etienne. You shall see that presently.

      This good woman then lived on her big farm, very spacious and admirably situated. A slate roof covered the large house; the granaries,3 stables and outhouses were sheltered by old thatching upon which grew moss and lichen.

      Let me tell you now, dear children, who were the chief occupants of the farm. First there was big Coco—a fine Normandy horse—bay-coloured and very fat, whose silky coat had a purple sheen; he had a star on his forehead and a pink mark between his eyes. He was very gentle and answered to the voice of his mistress. If Mother Etienne passed by his stable he never failed to scent her and whinnied at once. That was his way of showing his friendliness and saying

      4Good morning.

      His good mistress spoiled him with all sorts of dainties. Sometimes a crust of bread, sometimes a handful of carrots, but what he loved best of all was sugar. If you had given him a whole loaf he would soon have eaten it up.

      Coco had for stable companions three fine Swiss cows. Their names were La Blonde, Blanchotte,

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