Along Came a Dog (1958)
“The little hen poked her head up from the hole she had dug and looked at the crowing rooster. She thoughtfully looked from the rooster in the window sill to the high row of nests that rose against the end wall of the hen house. She started to dig again, but then she hurried through the loose straw to the nests. The time had come to lay an egg.”
Along Came a Dog (1958)
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American children's writer 1906–1991Related quotes

9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', pp. 66-67

“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 14.