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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Curly-Haired Hen, by Auguste Vimar This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Curly-Haired Hen Author: Auguste Vimar Release Date: August 27, 2004 [EBook #13302] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CURLY-HAIRED HEN *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Hagen von Eitzen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: Yollande appears emerging from her shroud.] THE CURLY-HAIRED HEN TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. VIMAR TRANSLATED BY NORA K. HILLS 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 CHAPTER VIII Mother Etienne's Dream CHAPTER IX Mother Etienne's Fortune CHAPTER X Triumph of the Ointment 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. At 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 excel
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