Wednesday, April 8, 2015

“Detained at Home”



A man in our town
     Got this dispatch today
From nephew Henry Brown
     Two hundred miles away:
“Can’t make my city trip,
     It does beat all, by gum!
A chicken’ got the pip –
     I’ve got to stay to hum.”


April 8, ‘10





pip - to break through the shell of the egg
       - to break open (the shell of an egg) in hatching
                                                   http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary

Chicken ‘hum’ - Singing-Usually rapidly repeated notes with some amount of randomness. Similar to someone happily humming as they go about their business. It says “All is well.”
                                                   http://flipflopranch.com/chicken-talk/


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