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Mother Carey's chickens

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Mother Carey’s chickens
stormy petrels; believed by sailors to be harbingers of storms. [Marine Folklore: Wheeler, 251]
See : Omen


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Four or five Mother Carey's chickens stormed round in circles, shrieking as they swept past the bows.
 
 
 
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