"It's me chickens! Oh, it's me chickens!" he shouted.

"Oh, Duncan, come quick! You've found the nest of me precious chickens!" Duncan hurried to the mouth of the log, but Freckles was before him.

He crashed through poison-vines and underbrush regardless of any danger, and climbed on the stump.

When Duncan came he was shouting like a wild man.
"It's hatched!" he yelled.

"Oh, me big chicken has hatched out me little chicken, and there's another egg.