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Then Ratibor heard with surprise that the bird was indeed calling him by name. 'Poor chatterpie, said he; 'who taught you to say that name, which belongs to an unlucky mortal who wishes the earth would open and swallow up him and his memory for ever? Thereupon he caught up a great stone, and would have hurled it at the magpie, if it had not at that moment uttered the name of the princess.
'We shall be in to-morrow, so you'd better be digging up the treasures you have buried, you old magpie, said Mat, appearing to the pensive Livy on the eleventh day. 'The sun is out; come on deck, and help us get up the last edition of our paper. How will this do?
"Dear Freddy, it's our own dear little cricket, who loves us and comes to sing to us when the snow is on the ground." So when poor Miss Katy-did's satin and lace were all swept away, the warm home-talents of the Crickets made for them a welcome refuge. Old Mother Magpie was about the busiest character in the forest.
When Marjolin was nearly four years of age, old Mother Chantemesse also happened to find a child, a little girl, lying on the footway of the Rue Saint Denis, near the corner of the market. Judging by the little one's size, she seemed to be a couple of years old, but she could already chatter like a magpie, murdering her words in an incessant childish babble.
"Who-who-oo-oo-oo?" said the owl again. "`Who? who? who? why, whom do you suppose, but all your cousins of Featherland, come to give you a call?" said the magpie.
Wherever thou goest happiness and joy shall follow thee. Blue as the heaven shall be thy eggs, and from henceforth thou shalt be the Bird of God, the bearer of good tidings. But thou," He added, addressing the Magpie sorrowfully, "thou art accursed. No longer shall the brilliant tuft and bright feathers of which thou art so proud and so unworthy adorn thee.
'You look out of spirits to-day; began the magpie, bending down a very inquisitive eye to her friend's face; I am afraid you are not well; but I'm not surprised: that old sparrow I saw you eating for dinner must have been as tough as leather; it is no wonder you are ill after it! You should really be more careful, and only catch the nice tender young ones.
I'll coo- ee." She coo-eed her best and shrillest, but no answer came. There was no sound but the occasional scamper of some small furry animal or the unhomely call of an Australian parrot or magpie. All around her the monotonous grey trunks stood, as much alike as the pillars of a town-hall, and overhead the blue-green leaves stirred languidly in the warm wind.
She is really a great character among her people, and with the information I have gathered, I believe the New York police will be able to locate her. "I shall hang on to Master Roberto until the matter is closed up. He will say nothing about the necklace. He'll not even own up that he ever saw it. But he tells me that his grandmother is a miser and hoards up valuables just like a magpie."
It won't do to have a leaky roof over our heads; it might come tumbling down, and cost a mint of money to put right again." Austin gave the required promise, and thought no more about it. He also forgot entirely to tell his aunt she had better lock up the spoons with particular care that night because Lubin had seen a magpie in suspicious proximity to his window.