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Miss Eleanor's got no more sense than a pea hen, she thought mutinously.
La señora Eleanor tiene menos sentido común que una pava real —pensó, contrariada—.
are heard—at once suggesting perhaps rather ill-natured, but not unjustifiable, comparison with a pea-hen.
Al instante me viene a la cabeza la comparación, quizá algo desabrida pero no del todo injustificada, con una pava real.
A bird with as much sense as a pea-hen would have hit him fifty feet up, and a handy mate would have caught the bone in mid-air.
Un ave con la inteligencia de la pava real lo hubiera alcanzado a cincuenta pies de altura, con un compañero abajo para atrapar el hueso en pleno vuelo.
If a pea hen refuses to brood I read it quickly and, sure enough, that night I see a minha mãe standing hand in hand with her little boy, my shoes jamming the pocket of her apron.
Si una pava real se niega a empollar, me apresuro a interpretarlo y, con toda seguridad, esa noche veo a minha máe en pie y con su hijito de la mano, mis zapatos metidos en el bolsillo del delantal.
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