If there's any more pecking, I'll take charge of the hen roost myself!"
He perched on a limb, and between dressing his plumage and pecking at last year's sour dried berries, he sent abroad his prediction.
At last he tumbled him into a goose-house that belonged to the Squire, and the geese began pecking and pinching him with their bills, so that he was more dead than alive.