The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband.
He looked like a fussy little hen scratching at gravel.
This little disheveled hen learned how to talk.
"Does the little hen want to try it?"
Thought Pink, the little hen was pleased, she too wanted to make a nest.
So they both can take credit for lending a hand to a wise old fable and a little red hen.
I'd already come to that conclusion after some idiot man tried to challenge me for smiling at his fat little hen of a wife.
The little hen went home with me in a cardboard box, and she is really quite bright.
"I felt like the little red hen who declared, 'I'll do it myself.' "
If that little red hen can make it in the big, bad world, I must certainly be able to.