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Glancing down it, they saw a young girl, wearing like flags the paint and manner of her profession, and uttering at intervals its peculiar cry that shrill, harsh laugh which had drawn the ladies' attention. "Ah!" a coo of satisfaction came from Mlle. Binesco. "Voil
Old Brown old Brown Get home get home, Your drunk, drunk, drunk, Coo chung-cooo chung Chuck-chuck-chuck. Chr r r r r r r r. Many curious stories are told respecting the sagacity of animals, among which the dog takes a prominent place. My father had a large dog when I was a youngster that certainly deserves a place among the remarkable ones of his race.
Indeed, in a silence, such as now and again happens at feasts, I heard one of them say, "You had best beware lest that fair white dove of yours does not slip your hand and begin to coo in another's ear, my Lord Deleroy," and heard his answer, "Nay, I have her too fast, and who cares for a pining dove whereof the feathers adorn another's cap?"
It was funny to see the little honey-eaters thrusting in their long beaks again and again in search of the sweet drops they had learned to expect in flowers, and funnier still to watch the air of disgust with which they would give up the attempt. There were doves everywhere not in cages, for they never tried to escape. Their soft "coo" murmured drowsily all around.
"On the top or summit of the dome, are placed, in the most loving attitudes, two exquisite figures, representing the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, with a fine figure of Hymen behind, and over them, with his torch flaming with electrical fire in one hand and, with the other, supporting a celestial crown, sparkling, likewise, with the effulgent fire over a pair of real living turtle-doves, who, on a little bed of roses, coo and bill under the super-animating impulses of the genial fire!
For all answer Jeanne gave a sort of little whistle half whistle, half coo it was. "Houpet, Houpet," she called softly, "we've brought a little cochon de Barbarie to sleep in your house. You must be very kind to him do you hear, Houpet dear? and in the morning you must fly down and peep in at his cage and tell him you're very glad to see him."
The doves coo and flutter from the dovecot; Hortense is drawing water from the well; and as all the rooms open into the court, you can see the white-capped cook over the furnace in the kitchen, and some idle painter, who has stored his canvases and washed his brushes, jangling a waltz on the crazy, tongue-tied piano in the salle-a- manger.
There were plenty of pigeons flying about, and I inquired whether he also claimed them, in reply to which he said, "'No, they are my sister Allie's; you should see her come into the yard; they fly round her, perch on her shoulders, pick food from between her lips, and coo with delight. Indeed, every live thing about the place knows and loves Allie.
You're on Grannie's lap, are you? How's Cæsar? And how's Mrs. Gorry doing? Look at that now did you ever? Opening one eye first to make sure if the world's all right. The child's wise. Coo oo oo! Smart with the dinner, Nancy wonderful hungry the chapel's making a man. Coo oo! What's she like, now, Grannie?"
'Or suppose a cow were to stray upon the line; would not that be a very awkward circumstance? queried a committee member, only to give Stephenson an opening for the classic reply in his slow Northumbrian speech: 'Ay, verra awkward for the coo. And not only would the locomotive as it shot along do such varied damage; in truth, it would not go at all; the wheels, declared eminent experts, would not grip on the smooth rails, or else the engines would prove top-heavy.
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