My hen

Title: My hen
Year: 1941
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Fulltext: Aucun, 1g.p TTIF YOU�G CITIZEN Fo ...... ,-,y-( ... � • . I, I ....... . - ! t \' • .._.. l,...,.l' ,.• • � • •• r�Y HEN By EDITH LA�HAM BOKELOH I love to watch my little hen, With all her chicks about her; And see them scamper when she clucks. . What would I do without her! A HEN LESSON I have a pet hen. I raised her on our farm. She was a baby chick at first. Now she is grown. I call her Biddy. She likes to eat rice and corn. She scratches in the ground for worms. Then she calls . her little chicks. Biddy is a good mother. She watches over her lit tle chicks. She keeps them warm at night. They sleep under her wings. She hides them from dan ger under her wings. SOME HEN QUESTIONS Choose the right word and write it on the blank. 1. What are the hen's babies called? --2. What do they eat? and 3. What does Mother Hen find in the ground? --4. With what is Mother Hen covered? --6. What does Mother Hen say? 7. What do hens lay? --8. When they are grown, what ·are baby chicks called? feathers . wtngs chicks eggs nee corn feet poultry 9. What is Mother Hen's mouth called?--10. With what does she scratch the ground? Her - · -11. Where do the little chicks hide? Under her ----12. ·where do they sleep? Under her --13. What do little chicks do? 14. What are many chickens to gether called? --worms chickens rooster bill wings cluck-cluck down scamper