Bad Luck With Hens

Another magnificent snippet from Fish, Flesh And Good Red Herring : A Gallimaufry by Alice Thomas Ellis (2004):

[The vicar’s wife] has had bad luck with hens: she lived for a time on Tristan da Cunha and says there are few things more dispiriting than seeing your poultry being blown by the wind out over the Atlantic.

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