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Rosamond was inventing a feather for her hat out of the best of an old black-cock plume, and some bits of beautiful downy white ones with smooth tips, that she brought forth out of a box. "What are they, Rose? And where did you get them?" Ruth asked, wondering. "They were dropped, and I picked them up," Rosamond answered, mysteriously. "The owner never missed them."
The Glen is deep and shady an ideal place for fish. The only disappointment here, as far as I can make out, is the very few head of black-game." "Yes, but every year they are getting rarer and rarer in this part of Scotland. A really fine black-cock is quite an event nowadays," I said.
Besides, seeing him was like a bit of Scotland their auerhahn is kin to the black-cock and capercailzie. So I marked him to the skirt of Thusis, yonder in line with that needle across the gulf and, through it, to that bunch of pinkish-stemmed pines there where the brook falls into silver dust above that gorge. He'll lie there. Just before daybreak he'll mount to the top of one of those pines.
A like share, a like share; Dear friends, that's only fair! Saw see! See saw! That's what the Black-cock said. And now, can you tell me which of them ought to have the cow? Once on a time there was a man whom they called Rich Peter the Pedlar, because he used to travel about with a pack, and got so much money, that he became quite rich.
Speech, connection between the brain and the faculty of; connection of intonation with music. Spel, of the black-cock. Spencer, Herbert, on the influence of food on the size of the jaws; on the dawn of intelligence; on the origin of the belief in spiritual agencies; on the origin of the moral sense; on music. Spengel, disagrees with explanation of man's hairlessness.
After performing these antics the males begin to fight: and the same black-cock, in order to prove his strength over several antagonists, will visit in the course of one morning several Balz-places, which remain the same during successive years. Brehm, 'Thierleben, 1867, B. iv. s. 351.
If up a bonny black-cock should spring, To whistle him down wi' a slug in his wing, And strap him on to my lunzie string, Right seldom would I fail.
The elder Brehm gives a curious account of the Balz, as the love-dances and love-songs of the Black-cock are called in Germany. The bird utters almost continuously the strangest noises: "he holds his tail up and spreads it out like a fan, he lifts up his head and neck with all the feathers erect, and stretches his wings from the body.
Presently the two men came back to their seats, and when Master Windecke, who, in speaking, had forgotten to eat, fell to with double good will, Uncle Conrad gravely bid Kubbeling to out with what he had to say; and yet the man, who was lifting the leg of a black-cock to his mouth, would reply no more than a rough, "All in good time, my lord."
'The Mac-Ivors, sir, hae gotten it into their heads, that ye hae affronted their young leddy, Miss Flora; and I hae heard mae than ane say, they wadna, tak muckle to make a black-cock o' ye; and ye ken weel eneugh there's mony o' them wadna mind a bawbee the weising a ball through the Prince himsell, an the Chief gae them the wink or whether he did or no, if they thought it a thing that would please him when it was dune.
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