"Great cracked corn!" he exclaimed. "This Henrietta Hen is getting to be a pest."
IX
HAUGHTY HENRIETTA
Feeling as important as she did, Henrietta Hen liked to have her own way. She said that she couldn't be expected to do just as others wished.
"I'll take orders from nobody," she often declared. "And if I lay eggs for Farmer Green I shall lay them when and where I please."
Henrietta took special delight in laying her eggs in out-of-the-way places. She was never content to lay two in the same nest.
"If they left them for me perhaps I'd feel differently," she explained to her neighbors. "But Johnnie Green gathers every egg that he can find. And if he takes my eggs I'll make him hunt for them, anyhow."
The older, more staid hens shook their heads when Henrietta talked like that. They told her she was ungrateful.