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Two days ago my hilarious bantam-cock, saucy to the last, my cheeriest companion, was found frozen in his own water-trough, the corn-saucer in three pieces by his side. Since then I have taken the hens into the house.
Justly celebrated! repeated Jack, spitting on the carpet with a hawk of disgust; 'the conceited self-sufficient bantam-cock never made a cast worth a copper, or rode a yard but when he thought somebody was looking at him. 'I've got it, said Sponge, who had plied his pen to good purpose. 'Justly celebrated, repeated Jack, with a snort.
Not so little Jean Paul with his broad shoulders, the brace of an Admiral and his five-feet-six-inches; a veritable little bantam-cock, and game to the finish.
"Tis comical, indeed it is To see him mix a punch He puts two drops of liquor in, And then he eyes the lunch; He struts about most pompously, Then stands before the fire, Just like a little bantam-cock, This comical Uriah!" Inasmuch as Uriah refused to bring on the "bush" for either love or money, we determined to help ourselves. Therefore, every man appointed himself a bar-keeper pro tem.
Among the ashes left by a previous fire her bantam-cock Pharaoh was busy pecking, scratching, and calling up imaginary hens to feast upon his imaginary 'finds. I entered the Dell, and before Sinfi saw me I was close to her. She was muttering to the refractory fire as though it were a live thing, and asking it why it refused to burn beneath the kettle.
Julia pounced on her bantam-cock, and with her left hand literally pulled him off the premises, and shook her right fist at him till she got him out of sight of the foe; then she kissed him on both cheeks, and burst out laughing; and, indeed, she was so tickled that she kept laughing at intervals, whether the immediate subject of the conversation was grave or gay.
"What fool put that idea in your head?" Fitzroy strutted forward like a bantam-cock. "I did, sir. Coal is a very interesting product." "Ay, to a cook." "To every English g-gentleman." "I disown that imputation for one." "Of being an English g-gentleman?" There was a general titter at this sly hit. "No, sir," said the Colonel, angrily "of taking an interest in coal."
Billy, instead of taking his castigation meekly, as before, was violently resisting by shout and kick the attentions of his relative. This it was which appeared to render the transaction so particularly interesting to the onlookers. "Go it, young bantam-cock," some one was crying as I approached, "let her have it." "Give it up, do you hear, or I'll murder you!" shrieked the woman.
The fire was blazing beneath a kettle slung from the 'kettle-prop. The party were waiting for us. Sinfi, however, never idle, was filling up the time by giving lessons in riding to Euri and Sylvester Lovell, two dusky urchins in their early teens, while her favourite bantam-cock Pharaoh, standing on a donkey's back, his wattles gleaming like coral in the sun, was crowing lustily.
The little dog was suffering so severely from the distemper, that it was necessary to confine her to her kennel, which had open bars in front of it. A bantam-cock which lived in the yard, walking up and down, observed the poor little animal, and gazed at her with looks of deep compassion. At last he managed to squeeze himself through the bars.
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