The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
" said Mr. Bensin
k I knew a chick whe
's cousin
ne thing, and besides you can se
ke a bustard
g Bensington to drag him into the argument, "I m
ington's cousin Jane, "instead of us
eally, Miss
Cousin Jane. "You
and hypertrophied, but still-especially since it was hatched from the egg of a normal hen-Yes, I
a chick?" sai
s a chick,"
rected at Redwood's head, "I haven't patience with you," and the
ensington," said Redwood, when the reverberation of t
hat even in an unscientific man would have been indiscreet. "You will think it very rash of me, Bensington, I know,
-!" cried Mr
glanced at the giant chick
ank goodness," and he felt in
… no good…. Mrs. Redwood-unmitigated confidence in Winkles…. You know, man with a manner like a cliff-towering…. No confidence in me, of course
row," said M
y-seven ounces last
's manageme
at's what Sk
They won't trust me in the nursery alone, because I tried to get a growth cu
ed
et on with his ordinary food again
Wink
kles!" sa
les and give him powde
o," said Redwood, resting his chin o
he down on the breast of the giant chick
edwood, still with
ses," said
d Redwood. "T
imen. "Redwood," he said, "these fow
ed his head
g round suddenly with a flash in his
t I'm thinking o
deep into his trousers pockets. "That's precisely what I'm thinking of. This Herakleo
e," said Mr. Bensington slowly, a
Bensington,
nishing doses," said R
les
too much of a
uc
confess-… Some baby will so
it on some ba
ame and stood on the hearthrug and t
alise-anything-of the possibilities of what we were making. It'
ton was far from any conception of t