Nearest equivalent to C-a-t-h-a-r-t-e-s A-t-r-a-t-a.'" "How the divil am I ever to learn them corkin' big words by mesel' ?" "'-- the Pharaoh's Chickens of European species.

Sometimes stray north as far as Virginia and Kentucky----'" "And sometimes farther," interpolated Freckles, "'cos I got them right here in Indiana so like these pictures I can just see me big chicken bobbing up to get his ears boxed.

Hey ?" "'Light-blue eggs'-- --" "Golly! I got to be seeing them!" "'-- big as a common turkey's, but shaped like a hen's, heavily splotched with chocolate----'" "Caramels, I suppose.

And----" "'-- in hollow logs or stumps.'" "Oh, hagginy! Wasn't I barking up the wrong tree, though?
Ought to been looking close the ground all this time.

Now it's all to do over, and I suspect the sooner I start the sooner I'll be likely to find them." Freckles put away his book, dampened the smudge-fire, without which the mosquitoes made the swamp almost unbearable, took his cudgel and lunch, and went to the line.