صفحة 136 من 626

3. HOW PARTLET DIED AND WAS BURIED, AND HOW CHANTICLEER DIED OF

GRIEF

Another day Chanticleer and Partlet agreed to go again to the

mountains to eat nuts; and it was settled that all the nuts which

they found should be shared equally between them. Now Partlet

found a very large nut; but she said nothing about it to

Chanticleer, and kept it all to herself: however, it was so big

that she could not swallow it, and it stuck in her throat.