Mother Carey

This is Ramsden Lane where an old woman called Mother Carey kept a snake farm.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

This is Ramsden Lane where an old woman called Mother Carey kept a snake farm.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

They are what sailors call Mother Carey's chickens, you know.

We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

On the 31st, we saw several of the birds which the sailors call Mother Carey's Chickens, and which they suppose to be the forerunners of a storm; and on the next day we had a very hard gale, which brought us under our courses, washed overboard a small boat belonging to the boatswain, and drowned three or four dozen of our poultry, which we regretted still more.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

"A delightful book for girls, not to mention the boys and the mothers and fathers, is 'Mother Carey's Chickens,' one of the best of the many good stories that Mrs. Wiggin has written ....

Old Valentines A Love Story Munson Aldrich Havens

"Of course we have seen 'Mother Carey's Chickens.'

The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

And there Mother Carey will tell you the way to the

The Water Babies 2007

Lady Gairfowl, and so perhaps they were; for Mother Carey had had a great deal of fresh experience between the time that she invented the Gairfowl and the time that she invented them.

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“You are Mother Carey,” said Tom, in a very low, solemn voice; for he had found out something which made him very happy, and yet frightened him more than all that he had ever seen.

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But people do not yet believe that Mother Carey is as clever as all that comes to; and they will not till they, too, go the journey to the Other-end-of-Nowhere.

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