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To complete the picture, a cock, the recognised harbinger of atmospheric mutations, was present; and, in spite of the fact that a certain connection with affairs of gallantry had led to his having had his head pecked bare by other cocks, he flapped a pair of wings appendages as bare as two pieces of bast and crowed loudly.
Abe was particularly well pleased with the scoring of the 'blanked old rooster who crowed so blanked high, and somewhat incensed at the quiet remark interjected by Geordie, 'that it was nae credit till a man tae be a sinner'; and when Geordie went on to urge the importance of right conduct and respectability, Abe was led to pour forth vials of contemptuous wrath upon the Pharisees and hypocrites who thought themselves better than other people.
And Maarda and he fought the dread enemy hour after hour, day after day. Bereft of its mother's care, the Tenas Klootchman turned to Maarda, laughed to her, crowed to her, until her lonely heart embraced the child as a still evening embraces a tempestuous day. Once she had a long, terrible fight with herself.
"Summer and winter, I've done a lot of climbing, up here!" "You try it! Any girl try sitting in the Devil's Chair! Why! there isn't a girl living who could do it," crowed the gray-shouldered youth: and now his tones were lordly, as if he were picking himself up after an inner tumble. "Hey! Is that so?" Pem over-hearing ground the words between her teeth.
Infuriated by the attack, the squire hit right and left manfully, and dashed out his feet in every direction; but his blows and kicks only met the empty air, while those of his unseen antagonist told upon his own person with increased effect. The spectacle seemed to afford infinite amusement to the raven. The mischievous bird almost crowed with glee. There was no standing it any longer.
"Say, Foxy! got an infant there?" demanded one girl. "I suppose Fielding has made her a Sweetbriar already eh?" suggested another. "The Sweetbriars do not have to fish for members," declared Helen, tossing her head. "Oh, my! See what a long tail our cat's got!" responded one of the other crowd, tauntingly. "The double quartette! There's just eight of them," crowed another.
Never did the old man come near the infant but it smiled and crowed and stretched out its little arms; and then the mother and I would press each other's hand secretly, and were not jealous. Well, then, Blanche and Pisistratus were seated near the cradle and talking in low whispers, when my father pushed aside the screen and said, "There, the work is done!
They had been in Rotterdam some days, when Denys met Catherine accidentally in the street, and after a warm greeting on both sides, bade her rejoice, for he had found the she-comrade, and crowed; but Catherine cooled him by showing him how much earlier he would have found her by staying quietly at Tergou, than by vagabondizing it all over Holland.
"Oh, my scalp!" said he; "it feels very uncomfortable already." Again the shout reached us. We shouted in return. We had little doubt that it was raised by the doctor and his companions. Soon they emerged out of the darkness laden with all sorts of specimens of natural history. We crowed over them, however, for they had not killed either a guanaco or a puma.
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