StoryTitle("caps", "The Clucking Hen") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Will you take a walk with me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My little wife, to-day?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's barley in the barley field, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hayseed in the hay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Thank you;\" said the clucking hen; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I've something else to do;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'm busy sitting on my eggs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I cannot walk with you.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Said the clucking hen;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My little chicks will soon be hatched, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll think about it then.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(11, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clucking hen sat on her nest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She made it in the hay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And warm and snug beneath her breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A dozen white eggs lay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crack, crack, went all the eggs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out dropped the chickens small! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Cluck,\" said the clucking hen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Now I have you all.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Come along, my little chicks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll take a walk with you.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hallo!\" said the barn-door cock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Cock-a-doodle-doo!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Aunt Effie's Rhymes.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>