Once more she hastened to the bantams, and lavished her care on the tiny things, of whom only three were surviving.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
In the accustomed twenty-one days the bantams were hatched and removed; but after the usual thirty days required for hatching the duck-eggs had passed, none appeared, and so the Dorking hen was taken away and the nest destroyed.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
She led him out to the sweet-apple tree, and introduced him to the calf and the bantams, and invited him to go with them nutting the next day.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine