Autobiographical novel of Fowl with Illustrations
So ably has the author caught what might be described as the hen's outlook, that it is impossible to forget throughout the book that it is a hen who is telling the story.
The hen heroine has lived a full life, and the book abounds in incident, experience, and reflection. In her narrative, she incidentally reveals much of the wild and domestic life of the farm, and during her adventurous career in town and country, she visits many queer places and sees life under various conditions — tragic, pathetic, and humorous. The fowl's amanuensis,
Mr J. W. Hurst has the advantage of an intimate acquaintance with the heroine in all phases of her existence, and the fact that his more technical writings are recognised as authoritative gives the endorsement of accuracy to an old hen's garrulity.
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