One never has to travel very far from home to see something new and
interesting; so I wonder if all of the readers know of the “frizzly
chicken” which is so popular among the colored people of our southern
states.
It is of ordinary size and like the rest of the chicken family, except
that its feathers stand on end like the quills of an angry porcupine. It
reminded me of a chicken perpetually blown before a March wind. Of
course, their feathers become ragged and “frizzled,” like the hair of
their proud possessors, and I imagine the motherly inclined do not find
their sittings quite so comfortable as do our meek-looking hens.
As a rule, the negroes are very humane in their treatment of domestic
animals. The dogs are treated as well as the children, and nearly every
cabin door has a hole cut in it for the entrance and exit of the family
cats. As the weather is seldom cold, these ventilators are really good
for the larger inmates.
Lee McCrae.