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A Pet Reader

Chapter 43: A Queer Hen
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Aimed at beginning readers, this collection presents short poems and simple prose about household and farm animals, including dogs, cats, birds, poultry, horses, rabbits, and small pets. Brief anecdotes, descriptive pieces, and rhymes portray everyday pet behavior, care tasks, and gentle moral lessons about kindness and responsibility toward animals. Sections group similar creatures and alternate playful vignettes with practical tips for feeding, housing, and helping wildlife. Illustrative scenes and accessible language support early reading and introduce empathy for animals.

A Queer Hen

In a city in Maine there lives a bus driver.
This bus driver has a pet hen that is very tame.
When the hen hears the driver taking the bus out of the barn, she runs to the car.
When the driver takes his seat at the wheel, the hen flies up and sits beside him.
As the driver goes from town to town, the hen stays with her kind friend.
She stays with him all day long.
When the bus driver returns home at night, the hen flies down to the ground.
Then she runs to the barnyard door, and has her supper with the other hens.
After her long automobile trip, this hen is very tired.
So she goes to roost very early in the evening.
After a night’s rest, she is ready to start out again in the morning.
Rain or shine, this hen never misses her automobile ride.
Now, is she not a queer hen?