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"Do you remember no, of course you don't but, th' was an eclipse of th' sun total, I believe they called it when I was only about seven year old. All th' chickens went to roost, it got so dark, an' when th' cover come off they crowed's if 'twas mornin'. We had a blue hen an' she crowed too. Pap killed 'er. He said it was bad luck t' have a hen crowin' about th' place."
For she took to her bed, an' agin' the crowin' o' the cock wan midnight, she gives a little cry an' snatched at me beard. 'Daddy, says she, 'daddy, it hurts! An' thin she floats away, wid a stitch av pain at her lips." Macavoy sat down now, his fingers fumbling in his beard. Pierre was uncomfortable.
"Our little boy has come 'round delightful." "Kerrect," said Bone. "But if us old cusses could see him sort of laughin' and crowin' it would do us heaps of good." "Give him time," said the teamster. "Some of the sickenest crowin' I ever heard was let out too soon." The carpenter said, "You jest leave him alone with these here blocks for a day or two, if you want to hear him laugh."
I was awakened about one o'clock. I knoo it was one, 'cause I had the rheumatiz so bad I couldn't sleep, and so I got up and went to the fire to keep warm. I thought I would put my horn to my ear, and I jest caught the faintest sound of the roosters crowin'; so when I hearn that I knoo what time it was.
"Well well, sah," said Wash, "if dat Shanghai don't come back befo', I shall hab ter go snoopin' aroun' de kentry a-huntin' fo' him. He'll be crowin' 'bout sun-up, an' he suah can't disguise his crow." "If Andy was here, he would surely want to go with us," declared Jack to Mark. "Andy Sudds isn't afraid of anything." "My! my!" cried Washington.
"Now I ought to have telled you that up to now iverything i' t' cove were as whisht as t' grave. I could hear t' cocks crowin' up at our house, but all t' wild birds were roostin' i' t' boughs or on t' grund.
For she took to her bed, an' agin' the crowin' o' the cock wan midnight, she gives a little cry an' snatched at me beard. 'Daddy, says she, 'daddy, it hurts! An' thin she floats away, wid a stitch av pain at her lips." Macavoy sat down now, his fingers fumbling in his beard. Pierre was uncomfortable.
"I reckon Hump won't come crowin' round heah any more co't days, Mr. Jackson," said our host. But Mr. Jackson swept the room with his eyes and then glared at the landlord so that he gave back. "Where's my man?" he demanded. "Your man, Mr. Jackson?" stammered the host. "Great Jehovah!" cried Mr. Jackson, "I believe he's afraid to race. He had a horse that could show heels to my Nancy, did he?
"It wa'n't right, of course," began Jim, at last, awkwardly, "crowin' over dad as I do. I never thought how how 't would make the rest of you fellers feel." Bob, on the grass, bridled and opened his lips, but something in Jim's rapt face kept him from giving voice to his scorn. "'Course there ain't any one like dad there can't be," continued Jim hurriedly.
You talk as if we was beholden to you for the very bread in our mouths. I guess if it hadn't been for Jim, you wouldn't been here crowin' over us." "You mind what I say. I mean business this time," said Lapham, turning to the door. The woman rose and followed him, with her bottle in her hand. "Say, Colonel! what should you advise Z'rilla to do about Mr. Wemmel?
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