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John Savage wrote:

Aprill Allen writes:
DH has just (already) given me my Christmas present - 4 chooks! For a
second hand chookpen that he bought me a few weeks ago. They will start
laying in 2-3months.

They'd be 4 French Hens, would they?

Watch out for the maids a-milking, pipers piping et al -- has anyone else
heard the lovely exchange of letters between Cynthia Bracegirdle and Algernon
ffotherington-Smythe?

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.