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And personally , just as a matter of taste , would she not prefer wee , round , glancing heads , and pointed beaks , peeping from under her wings , to these teaspoon-shaped things larger than her own ? I wonder ! We are training fourteen large young chickens to sit on the perches in their new house , instead of huddling together on the floor as has been their habit , because we discover rat-holes under the wire flooring occasionally , and fear that toes may be bitten . At nine o'clock Phoebe and I lift the chickens one by one , and , as it were , glue them to their perches , squawking . Three nights have we gone patiently through with this performance , but they have not learned the lesson . The ducks and geese are , however , greatly improved by the application of advanced educational methods , and the _ regime _ of perfect order and system instituted by Me begins to show results . -LCB- One can always be a Goose Girl : p53.jpg -RCB- There is no more violent splashing and pebbling , racing , chasing , separating .