European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb.
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To-day he stood forth with confidence and told about a fat hen.
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Among these was a foolish, fat hen who lived in Farmer Green's henhouse.
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Watched a regal python constrict a fat hen before consuming it.
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If I could have just one fat hen that is all I would ask.
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It was a nice fat hen; it winked with one eye, and looked very artful.
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That would mean giving up the fat hen which he had hidden in the hollow stump.
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Suddenly the fat hen began running to him.
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Even my fat hen curls up and dies.
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The fat hen is on the box.
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The fat hen has left the nest.
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So Blacky followed, and his eyes twinkled when he saw Reddy hide the fat hen in the hollow stump.
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This is a fat hen.
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I hope he chose a good fat hen, and not one of your tough old capons that sometimes come to table.
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Select a good fat hen, one pound of bacon strip, and one dozen whole black peppers, and boil together until quite done.
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Worrall Thompson, who mixed up the noxious weed with the distinctly more edible fat hen, admitted the mistake was "embarrassing".
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Two long legs with great curving claws reached down in, and a moment later that fat hen was disappearing over the tree tops.
