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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverbell, post: 9487150, member: 78125&quot;]One year for Easter, I was given a pair of chicks.&nbsp; I named them Icky and Sticky.&nbsp; (Sticky met a sad end which we later considered might have been Suspicious.)&nbsp; Icky, however, grew and throve.&nbsp; He learned how to get out of the hen house by himself, and spent the summer diving at my five-year-old ankles from ambush.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>His facial expression was very like Kaiser&#039;s creature.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day he disappeared.&nbsp; Oddly enough, no one looked for him, and no one spoke of missing him.&nbsp; (Certainly not I, as I mopped up my bloody ankles!)</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years later, my grandmother told me that he was the toughest, most sinewy bird she had ever cooked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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