Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	Hen party at the three stags
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	Hickety pickety my brown hen, She lays eggs for Jesus men; With tail a-cock and comb a-curl She struts three paces from the Turl. Snug nests against the Ship Street wall Cradle omelettes served in Hall, And hard beside these ancient stones Are breakfasts laid for Jones and Jones. Jesus College, Oxford (supposed college of Welshmen - coat of arms: 3 gold stags on a green ground) had a hen run just inside the gates at its north-east corner. Oxford Times, 3 June 1966