A chicken's wings are useless...
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A chicken's wings are useless for flying. Watching a chicken expend all its energy to fly up to its roost quickly affirms that. But a mother hen's wings serve a very practical and important function: protection. When danger approaches, either from an overhead hawk or a menacing noise from the brush, the mother hen clucks, spreads her wings and her chicks run under them for cover. A cute little riddle sums this up nicely:
There's a queer little house that stands in the sun.
When the mother calls, the children all run,
And under the roof it is cozy and warm,
Though the cold winds may whistle and bluster and storm,
This queer little house has no windows or doors,
The roof has no chimney, the rooms have no floors.
No fireplace, no furnace, no stove can you see,
Yet the children are cozy and warm as can be.
(From the Canadian Sunday School Mission)
There's a queer little house that stands in the sun.
When the mother calls, the children all run,
And under the roof it is cozy and warm,
Though the cold winds may whistle and bluster and storm,
This queer little house has no windows or doors,
The roof has no chimney, the rooms have no floors.
No fireplace, no furnace, no stove can you see,
Yet the children are cozy and warm as can be.
(From the Canadian Sunday School Mission)
