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As to the night-hawks and the other birds which fly in the dark, they swooped around and over him the whole livelong night; and when he began to get a little sleep, about daybreak, every bird in the place began to sing, or twitter, or scream, or crow, or gobble, or chatter, and the Prince might as well have tried to fly as sleep.

"Oh, it's the second Billy Goat Gruff, and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the Billy Goat. Nor had he such a small voice, either. "Now, I'm coming to gobble you up!" said the Troll. "Oh, no! don't take me, wait a little till the big Billy Goat comes, he's much bigger." "Very well! be off with you," said the Troll. But just then up came the big Billy Goat Gruff.

In an instant he turned the nozzle, and aimed the hose at the turkey which still had hold of the poor dog's tail. All over the turkey splashed the water, and as the big bird tried to gobble, and keep hold of Splash's tail at the same time, and as the water went down its throat, the noise, instead of "Gobble-obble-obble," sounded like "Gurgle-urgle-urgle." "There!

Some day England will gobble it up; only waiting for a good excuse." "What big thing did you do?" demanded Kathlyn, her eyes still filled with scrutiny. "What makes you think it was big?" jestingly. "Because," she answered seriously, "you never do anything but big things. As the lion is among beasts, you are among men." "Good lord!"

A loud "gobble obble obble," proceeded from the animals, evidently uttered by some one of the three. "As I live," exclaimed Francois, "that's the gobble of an old turkey-cock!" "Neither more nor less," replied Lucien, with a smile. "They are turkeys!" "Turkeys!" echoed Basil, "turkeys taken for buffaloes! What a grand deception!"

But of deadly big game he saw no sign that day. Once from a distant brake he was surprised to hear the gobble of the wild turkey; and more surprised still and delighted when the trail led to a twilight gloom and coolness, and at the green margin of a little spring he saw a stag drinking. It turned its terrified eyes upon him for an instant and then bounded away like a gray shadow.

But in spite of the best of care the current was constantly catching some of them and sweeping them away, and our young friend would creep up as near as he dared, and whenever one of the yellow-brown balls came his way he would gobble it down with as little remorse as he had felt for his first larva.

I suppose it will be said that he is; that the black fellow bolted the whole code at a gobble, and wagged his tail, as if the feat must surely please his new masters; that he had long had the benefit of civilized cooking, and knew a gentleman by his toggery; that, moreover, he was of a teachable, plastic nature, and was meant to lie down in due time upon the hearth rug before the fire, in any gentleman's sitting room in the land.

But I can't handle it in that little corner shop I've got now: there's no room fur it. But it's too good a business there fur me to give up. So I'm going to open another place further out, and keep both a-going. And I can't afford no high-class bookkeeper or clerk, that will maybe jump my trade and gobble all my profits.

He is a caterer and panderer to English hypocrisy. There is nothin' too gross for him to swaller. We call them turkeys; first because they travel so fast for no bird travels hot foot that way, except it be an ostrich and second, because they gobble up every thing that comes in their way.