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There was a faint scratching noise as of finger nails gripping the sill; then the window, very slowly, almost silently, was pushed steadily upward, and a dark form loomed up outside; and then, crawling through, a man dropped, as though his feet were padded like a cat's on the floor inside the room. The Magpie!

"Look at So-and-so," he said to Las Cases at Saint Helena, alluding to a confidential servant whom he had been obliged to dismiss for malversation. "I do not know how I could have been deceived in him for so long; he has a magpie eye."

'A missus at Undern! said Andrew to the cob's ears as they trotted home. 'No, never will I! A magpie rose from a wood near the road, jibing at him. He looked round almost as if it had been someone laughing at his resolve, and repeated, 'Never will I! 'Where's Hazel? asked Reddin.

That pleased Nelly, and she chatted like any affectionate little magpie, till Will was really interested; for when one is ill, small things amuse. "Do you expect your patients to come to you, Nelly?" he asked. "No, I shall go and look for them. I often see poor things suffering in the garden, and the wood, and always feel as if they ought to be taken care of, as people are."

Then Mother Magpie found clay and bits of twigs and moss and grass everything a bird could need to build a nest; and there is scarcely anything you can think of which some bird would not find very useful. When these things were all piled up before her she told every bird to do just as she did.

"Ye may save yourself the trouble of doctoring him. He's as dead as my magpie." Murphy looked much depressed. "Shure, Miss Beth, the poor baste done ye no harm," he pleaded. "No," said Beth, "nor my bird hadn't done you any harm, nor the cow Tony cut the tail off hadn't done him any harm." "I didn't kill yer burrd," Murphy asserted doggedly. "We'll see," said Beth.

A magpie, whose nest they had also plundered, hearing the young birds cry, came to them with food, and continued to supply the little ravens until they were given away by the boys. In Sweden, as I said before, neither the magpie nor its eggs are ever touched, whilst Mr.

I met him in an alley and made him go with me to the bridge, where he wished to buy from the guardian a learned magpie which performs the manual of arms with a gun. Oh! I am so tired!" "But why did you drag the General to the bridge?" "Because he had gout in his toe." Therese shrugged her shoulders, smiling: "You squander your wickedness. You spoil things."

Its rebuilding and exquisite refitting had been a marvel for the magpie chorus of the occasional column. The public already knew more of his new house than George Bruffin could ever forget. But Dick, who never read more of a newspaper than he must, knew only its address and the day when George and his wife should go into residence.

As thus: "If your father, Bart, had lived longer, he might have been worth a deal of money you brimstone chatterer! but just as he was beginning to build up the house that he had been making the foundations for, through many a year you jade of a magpie, jackdaw, and poll-parrot, what do you mean! he took ill and died of a low fever, always being a sparing and a spare man, full of business care I should like to throw a cat at you instead of a cushion, and I will too if you make such a confounded fool of yourself! and your mother, who was a prudent woman as dry as a chip, just dwindled away like touchwood after you and Judy were born you are an old pig.