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Now this ink was expensive, and could be bought only from the Grasshopper who manufactured it himself. She looked at Chirp just one second and told him to bring the Timothy Grass rod hanging in the corner. Chirp knew what that meant, but he took his punishment bravely. When Mrs.
Now, that may seem a strange remedy. But somehow it just suited Johnnie Green. He pattered barefooted down the stairs. And later, when he went to bed again, and Chirpy Cricket began to chirp once more, all Johnnie Green said was this: "Sing away little Tommy Tucker! You may not know it, but you sang for my supper!" And the next moment, Johnnie Green was sound asleep.
He heard the call of the crow from the hill, the melody of the bobolink along the meadow-brook; indeed, the birds of all sorts were astir, skimming along the ground or rising to the sky, keeping watch especially over the garden and the fruit-trees, carrying food to their nests, or teaching their young broods to fly and to chirp the songs of summer.
Presently there came a chirp or two, and then the bird thrust up its head, and out came the full blessedness of its song, exultant, home-like, intimate. Jean Jacques walked on, the bird singing by his side; and he did not look back. Nothing stops when we stop for a time, or for all time, except ourselves. Everything else goes on not in the same way; but it does go on. Life did not stop at St.
But my hearing was alert, and I thought to hear footsteps outside. At any rate, the chirp of the frog came to an abrupt end. Shortly my host returned and took up his monologue. It amounted to that. He seemed to delight in choosing unusual subjects and then backing me into a corner with an array of well-considered phrases that allowed me no opening for reply nor even comment.
It's the bad time with them when you don't hear them chirp. 'Of course you foretold the gale. 'Oh, well, it did not require a shepherd or a skipper for that. 'Your grand gift will be useful to a yachtsman. 'You like yachting. When I have tried my new schooner in the Channel, she is at your command for as long as you and Lady Dunstane please.
They stood silent a moment, until the chirp of some robin, frightened by their steps in its nest overhead, had hummed drowsily down into sleep. "It is not good-night, but good-bye, that I must bid you, Grey," he said, stooping to see her face. "I know. But you will come again. God tells me that." "I will come. Remember, Grey, I am going to save life, not to take it.
But here was interesting company. He looked at me and winked his eye from the front backwards, like a hen, and gave a chirp and began to peck about at once, as though being hatched three hundred years too late was just nothing.
It was rapidly growing lighter now; but the boys saw nothing of the lovely pearly dawn and the soft wreaths of mist which floated over the water. The birds were beginning to chirp and whistle, and as they ran on blackbird after blackbird started from the low shrubs, uttering the chinking alarm note, and flew onward like a velvet streak on the soft morning glow.
It was very small, but it gleamed like a spark sprung from the embers of the dawn. "The dicky-bird!" His dried lips tried to laugh. "Ef it ain't the dicky-bird!" The bird looked at him. "Ef that doesn't beat " but he could not think what it "beat." The bird cocked its head. "Ain't ye afeard o' me?" It gave a feeble chirp.
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