... though he had never seena chick before in his life.“Whath they’ll be when they’re grown up ith impothible to think,”said Mr. Skinner.“Big as a horse,” said Mr. Bensington.“Pretty near,” said ... engagements.The eligible couple who were destined under Mr. Bensington to be thefirst almoners on earth of the Food of the Gods, were not only very per-ceptibly aged, but also extremely dirty. ... Skinner, and Mr. Bensington interviewed them ina small room with hermetically sealed windows, a spotted overmantellooking-glass, and some ailing calceolarias.Mrs. Skinner was a very little old...