Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm

LOVE AMONG THE CHICKENS ***

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[Illustration: "Never mind the ink, old horse. It'll soak in."]

LOVE AMONG THE CHICKENS

A STORY OF THE HAPS AND MISHAPS ON AN ENGLISH CHICKEN FARM

BY P. G. WODEHOUSE

ILLUSTRATED BY

ARMAND BOTH

NEW YORK

THE CIRCLE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1909

_Copyright, 1908, by_ A. E. BAERMAN

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. --A LETTER WITH A POSTSCRIPT

II. --UKRIDGE'S SCHEME

III. --WATERLOO, SOME FELLOW-TRAVELERS, AND A GIRL WITH BROWN HAIR

IV. --THE ARRIVAL

V. --BUCKLING TO

VI. --MR. GARNET'S NARRATIVE. HAS TO DO WITH A REUNION

VII. --THE ENTENTE CORDIALE IS SEALED

VIII. --A LITTLE DINNER AT UKRIDGE'S

IX. --DIES IRÆ

X. --I ENLIST THE SERVICES OF A MINION

XI. --THE BRAVE PRESERVER

XII. --SOME EMOTIONS AND YELLOW LUBIN

XIII. --TEA AND TENNIS

XIV. --A COUNCIL OF WAR

XV. --THE ARRIVAL OF NEMESIS

XVI. --A CHANCE MEETING

XVII. --OF A SENTIMENTAL NATURE

XVIII. --UKRIDGE GIVES ME ADVICE

XIX. --I ASK PAPA

XX. --SCIENTIFIC GOLF

XXI. --THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

XXII. --THE STORM BREAKS

XXIII. --AFTER THE STORM

EPILOGUE

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Never mind the ink, old horse. It'll soak in" _Frontispiece_

They had a momentary vision of an excited dog, framed in the doorway

"I've only bin and drove 'im further up," said Mrs. Beale

Things were not going very well on our model chicken farm

"Mr. Garnet," he said, "we parted recently in anger. I hope that bygones will be bygones"

"I did think Mr. Garnet would have fainted when the best man said, 'I can't find it, old horse'"

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_A LETTER with a POSTSCRIPT_

I

Mr. Jeremy Garnet stood with his back to the empty grate--for the time was summer--watching with a jaundiced eye the removal of his breakfast things.

"Mrs. Medley," he said.

"Sir?"

"Would it bore you if I became auto-biographical?"