Continuing with Chapter Six:
Em'ly next tries to highjack some of the other chicken's chicks. That episode led to an all-out war between Em'ly and the mother hens, which unnerved the Virginian completely. "He went speechless, by himself, back to the bunkhouse, and sat on his bed, while I took the abandoned bantams back to their own circle," the narrator writes.
Em'ly next raised a litter of puppies whose mother neglected them. After they got too big to boss around, Tenderfoot gathers some smooth stones for Em'ly to sit on. But the Virginian doesn't think that's fair. He takes up the stones to toss them away, and is surprised to find them warm to the touch. Then, he slips his hand in another hen's nest and pulls out an egg just for Em'ly.