speckled hen

Tureens took the form of livestock and farm produce: swans, rabbits, a head of cabbage, a speckled hen with her golden chicks.

"If it was one of those nice speckled hens I expect I'd require a quarter a day," Augustus said.

"That guy's a German like I'm a speckled hen."

A speckled hen was settled in her lap.

Pink cyclamen bob in porcelain cachepots; a giant spray of sunflowers stands guard over two speckled ceramic hens.

They even had an old speckled hen on hand to celebrate.

She squelched heavily through the mud and pounced upon a speckled hen.

A small flock of speckled hens pecked in the dry dirt of the yard.

Chisholm's speckled hen, which need not have a determinate number of speckles to be successfully imagined, is perhaps the most famous of these.

The speckled hen has disappeared with her chicks.