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An old woman sits reading at a table outside a house while three children watch the hen with her chicks. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

An old woman sits reading at a table outside a house while three children watch the hen with her chicks. Engraving.

1831

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The hen and chickens. page 380. The youth's magazine or evangelical miscellany. For the year 1831, Vol. IV. Third Series.

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