He has been eating some of the brandied cherries which were thrown into the barnyard when the jug containing them was accidentally broken at house cleaning time.
"Well, Sarah, old Brigham was not sick at all--only 'ingloriously' drunk." In the fall of the same year Aunt Sarah spied Brigham one day on top of one of the cider barrels in the shed busily engaged eating the pummace which issued from the bung-hole of the barrel.

John Landis, on hearing of Brigham's last escapade, decided, as the rooster was large as an ordinary-turkey, to serve him roasted at Mary's wedding.
Fritz Schmidt remarked one day in the presence of Sibylla: "Chickens must possess some little intelligence; they know enough to go to bed early.

Yes, and without an 'alarm clock,' too, Sibylla, eh ?" She walked away without a word to Fritz.

The alarm clock was a sore subject with her, and one about which she had nothing to say.

Sibylla had never quite forgiven Fritz for the prank played on her.