"The World is Too Much With Us."

A comic tale about a reclusive man and a hen, who live together in domestic bliss until a buxom widow disrupts their eccentric liaison.

Baldwin (1987) notes the tale's debt to David Garnett's story "Lady into Fox."

In The Golden Oriole (1962). Reprinted in Woman's Journal (February 1963), Short Story International (4, 1965).