He quite overlooks the fact that Farmer Brown's boy feeds the biddies and takes the eggs as pay.
Anyway, that is what Farmer Brown's boy says, but I do not know whether or not the biddies understand it that way.
The door was locked, and could not be opened, because the key was in the pocket of the naughty boy; so the farmer got an axe and chopped down the wall, letting the poor biddies fly out, squawking and smoking.
He will hide and not get shut up; then, when those cross old biddies are asleep, he will cluck softly, and I am to go in and eat all I want out of the pan.
The Biddies are all alike, and they're all as stupid as owls, except when you tell 'em just what to do, and how to do it.
We'll make nests, too, children, that will suggest to the biddies that they should proceed at once to business.
I cried; "that's quite a contrast to the number that you put under one of your biddies at home.
To Winnie were given half a dozen china eggs with which to lure the prospective biddies to lay in nests easily reached, and she tried to cackle over them in absurd imitation.
A week later we had all we could use, and my wife began to put some by for the first brooding biddies to sit upon.
Gus hoped his hens would get one; but somebody else outdid him, to the great indignation of Laura and Lotty, who had fed the white biddiesfaithfully for months.
Of course, he discovered that the little sliding door where the biddies go in and out of the henhouse was open.
In his lifetime Reddy Fox has spent many anxious moments, but none more anxious than those in which he waited for Farmer Brown's boy to open the henhouse and feed the biddies on this particular morning.
Then, as he realized that Reddy had actually been inside the henhouse, anxiety for the biddies swept over him.
You see, Farmer Brown's boy had gathered every egg when he shut the biddies up for the night.
When the first light stole in under the door and the biddies began to stir uneasily on their roosts Unc' Billy's anxiety would allow him to keep still no longer.
There were quiet cows which his wife had milked, clucking biddies which she had lifted from nests with their downy broods.
It was evident that many of the biddies had stolen their nests, and some were brooding upon them with no disposition to be disturbed.
Besides, we used to have hired girls as superior to the Biddies of to-day as a patriarch is to a laquais de place.
The bonnet idolized yesterday is offered up without a sigh if it refuses to adopt the new shape,--cast into the flames, or thrown to wild Biddies to be worn to pieces.
Every night he goes out just before dark, collects the eggs and locks the henhouse so that no harm can come to the biddies while they are asleep on their roosts.
It was just at dusk of the afternoon of the day when Granny and Reddy Fox had talked over a plan to get one of those fat hens that Farmer Brown's boy collected the eggs and saw to it that the biddies had gone to roost for the night.
So he didn't intend to give them a chance to slip into that henyard while the biddies were out, or to give the biddies a chance to stray outside where they might be still more easily caught.
They stared up at the roosts where the biddies were huddled together, fast asleep.
Many times from a safe hiding-place he had hungrily watched Farmer Brown's boy shut the biddies up.
But the biddies had been securely locked up, and try as they would, they couldn't find a way in.
The Biddies are all alike, and they 're all as stupid as owls, except when you tell 'em just what to do, and how to do it.
Cockletop and her sisters cackled for him in vain, and really seemed to take his misfortune to heart, for eggs were fewer, and some of the biddies retired in disgust to new nests, which Tommy could not find.
You can do all of that--after the biddies are hatched.
At night, two jugs of hot water went into the brooders, and the little biddies never seemed to miss having a real mother.
No; few of us do that, even in the parlor; but every one of the Biddies is better for being there, whether they are grateful or not.
Do theBiddies all turn out saints in that well regulated family?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biddies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
