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The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother's house. As she entered the courtyard, the cock who was perched on the well, called out: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your golden daughter's come back to you. Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.
Don had been silent while Jem was examined, for he felt that this man was either a doctor, or one who knew something about surgery; but as soon as he had finished, the boy, whose indignation had been growing, turned to him haughtily. "Now, sir!" he exclaimed, "have the goodness to explain the meaning of this outrage." "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" cried the bluff man. "It is nothing to laugh at, sir.
During the day the megapode is sometimes silent, but ever and anon it gives way to what may in charity be presumed to be a crow -an uncouth, discordant effort to imitate the boastful, tuneful challenge of the civilised rooster. It seems to have been practising "cock-a-doodle-doo" all its life in the solitary corners and undergrowth, and to have not yet arrived within quavers of it.
I shall sleep under the bed," said the dog, "and guard my master." "Wee, wee!" said the pig, "I shall sleep in the oven where it is nice and warm." "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" "Cut-cut-cut-cut-ka-dat-cut!" cried the turkey, the rooster, and the hen all together, "we shall roost high up on the mantelshelf."
All that evening and far into the night it rained and rained, and the fowls cuddled close to each other to keep warm, and Flaps did not return. In the small hours of the morning the rain ceased, and the rain-clouds drifted away, and the night-sky faded and faded till it was dawn. "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" said Mark, and all the fowls woke up.
More and more fantastic grow the costumes of the people as one gets farther, so to speak, out of civilization and off the beaten roads. The ends of the turbans here are often seen gathered into a sort of bunch or tuft on the top; the ends are fringed or tipped with gold, and when gathered in this manner create a fanciful, crested appearance impart a sort of cock-a-doodle-doo aspect to the wearer.
The theological student Emil Hahn had, as one of his friends states, "lost life itself over his books and before his merry companions, who would have initiated him into the true enjoyment of existence, crowed many a moral cock-a-doodle-doo of virtue and self restraint."
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" sounded all through the hall, and Bunny, Sue, and the others who were getting ready for their parts in the dress rehearsal of the play, laughed. Mr. Treadwell looked surprised. "Why why it's a rooster!" he exclaimed. "Yes, Peter is my pet bantam rooster," said George. "I brought him with me because I thought he could crow in the barnyard scene, and make it more natural like."
They were silent all through the night, but when the dawn broke, they could not resist one cock-a-doodle-doo! Then the wizard chuckled and brought them in; but nothing had happened to them as yet. Babette lived during the next days in a state of suppressed excitement. She felt that something must happen for good or evil; but she did not know what.
Then a cock crowed, Cock-a- doodle-doo! The story is all told, Cock-a-doodle-doo! 159 The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders I will tell you something.
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