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Updated: June 25, 2025
On the third morning Sally said: "It's queer about them hens, Pap; they lay, but they don't cluck like a hen generally does when she lays an egg." Pap hesitated for a moment. "It's sich cold weather," he said, "I reckon that's why." About a week later Sally said: "I do declare to gracious, Pap, them hens do puzzle me." Pap moved uneasily in his seat. "The do puzzle me!" repeated Sally.
Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead. A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly. The blue gate was opened wide. My hand was on Tim's shoulder and Tim's arm was my support. "All's well!" I cried. For I was hobbling home.
'Ah-kre-nay will not depart without his sister; her voice is very sweet in his ears, sweeter than the cluck of the wild turkey to the hungry hunter. She is very little; let her hide in the corner of the wigwam. 'Peritana has a father, tall and straight an aged hemlock and two brothers, bounding like the wild deer Ah-kre-nay will not raise his hand against them?
She loved them, and when nobody was looking she used to cluck at them like their mother, but she did not often do this because she did not know duck language really well, and feared that her cluck might mean the wrong things, and that she might be giving these innocents bad advice, and telling them to do something contrary to what their mother had just directed.
At length, when all around is quiet, the whole party mount to the tops of the most lofty trees, whence, at a signal consisting of a single cluck given by the leader, the flock takes flight for the opposite shore. On reaching it, after crossing a broad stream, they appear totally bewildered, and easily fall a prey to the hunter, who is on the watch for them with his dogs."
Indeed the whack, whack of their hatchets and the heavier cluck, cluck of their axes could be heard on all sides of the clearing and in a surprisingly short time a big space had been made ready for the camp. Dozens of young cedars and fir trees were felled for the lean-tos and in short order the lads were busy with hammers and nails putting up the frame-work of six of these shelters.
There were stately turkeys with long necks and great fan-like tails. There were ducks with long fat bodies and big flat feet. Hurry, scurry! Scurry, hurry! "Cluck, cluck." "Peep-peep." "Groo-groo." "Gobble-gobble." "Quack, quack." Such noise and excitement you never heard! Such table manners you never saw! All were talking at once. Everyone was pecking and pushing and grabbing!
The body is about ten inches long; and the beak upwards of an inch, and of an orange colour. The jacana feeds on aquatic insects and vegetable matter. While feeding it utters a low-sounding cluck, cluck, at short intervals. When flying it throws out its long legs horizontally to their full length, generally skimming above the surface, out of danger.
Of a sudden we stumbled upon a wall that we had passed an hour or so before. 'Oh! he groaned, and made that funny, deprecating cluck with his tongue, that I have heard so much from Yankee lips. 'God o' mercy! said he, 'we've gone 'round in a half-circle. Now we'll take the wall an' mebbe it'll bring us home.
The only thing necessary was to gaze on the infant wonder, and share the delight of the hen over her chick, joining in her delicious cluck of innocent vanity.
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