Jeffery Hen Gives Up (Part 3)

Jeffery Hen tried to lay an egg for another week, ever since Vicki Hen laid her second egg. Each and every time she would hear another hen laying a egg she would get very disappointed, so she decided she would just give up.

She went outside and on top of another hen house a rooster was announcing the hatching of an egg at his hen house. Jeffery Hen and a few of the other hens went over to the couple's home to watch the egg hatch. The chick was mostly already has hatched, but the hens did get to watch it pull away the remaining part of the shell. The little chick started to get up and walk around.

Jeffery Hen didn't seem to get over the fact that she doesn't have one. When all of the hens started to leave Jeffery Hen was to the last to leave.

The next day there was another rooster announcing the hatching of another egg. This made matters even worse for Jeffery Hen. She was tempted to go and watch the chick come out of its shell.

The next day, when Jeffery Hen and Bear went outside to eat their morning meal, Roo flew out of the tree and joined his family as usual. Roo sure can tell that Jeffery Hen was not going to be happy until she has laid herself an egg. All of the other hens in the area has kindly been asking each other. "Is it that Jeffery can't lay an egg or is it Jeffery doesn't know how to lay an egg?" Everybody got a good laugh from the humor.

Some of the hens came up to talk to Roo about letting Jeffery Hen have an egg. Roo would say "I'm afraid Jeffery Hen wouldn't know how to take care of an egg or chick. The only thing Jeffery Hen knows how to do is eat and sleep."

Jeffery Hen started to clean out her nest of all of the straw and such stuff. Every night she slept on the roosting perch with Roo and Bear. Each morning, when Roo flies out of the window to start his morning crowing, Jeffery Hen seems to wake up somewhere around the last time he crows.

When Jeffery Hen goes outside to eat with Bear, Roo would always fly out of the tree as usual. Jeffery Hen would watch all of the other hens in the yard with their chicks. She even went over and talked to the other hens, it seems to her that the only thing they wanted to talk about was the twins Vicki Hen is going to have.

Bear would always be out playing with his friends all day. Each one wanted to grow up to be the town crower or go on the hunt with the other roosters.

Posted by Aunt Meaner