Why don't you teach 'em to come to that brass horn, and save your voice ?" "Tusky," says I, with feelin', "sometimes you do seem to get a glimmer of real sense." Well, first off them chickens used to throw back-sommersets over that horn.

You have no idee how slow chickens is to learn things.

I could tell you things about chickens--say, this yere bluff about roosters bein' gallant is all wrong.

I've watched 'em.

When one finds a nice feed he gobbles it so fast that the pieces foller down his throat like yearlin's through a hole in the fence.