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Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream. The window was struck again in the same manner.

... The first shot was just a rib too far back, and though it staggered him, he didn't stop to it. Out tinkled cartridge number one and in went a second, and "cluck" said the breech-block. And then as he slewed round, I got the next bullet home, bang behind the shoulder. That did it.

He saw her rubbing her eyes with her other hand. But Mack had risen, facing the west. He uttered a funny little cluck in his throat and the laughing young fellow wheeled in wonder. Along the horizon the glow was growing rapidly. A tongue of yellow flame shot high in the air.

'What a capital likeness of John, said Theodora. 'Mamma would be quite jealous of it. 'It belonged to my sister, said Percy. 'He got it done by an Italian, who has made him rather theatrically melancholy; but it is a good picture, and like John when he looked more young-mannish and sentimental than he does now. A hiss and cluck made Violet start.

Be careful first to have your proper carving-knife; and next to consider the number of the company. If a small number, it will only be necessary in carving a goose, turkey, or cluck, to cut deep slices from each side of the breast, without winging the birds. In a large party they must absolutely be cut up.

Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream. The window was struck again in the same manner.

Madame Antoine's step was no longer to be heard in the adjoining room. Even the chickens had gone elsewhere to scratch and cluck. The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar. Edna arose quietly from the bed, and looking between the curtains of the window, she saw by the slanting rays of the sun that the afternoon was far advanced.

The girl obeyed and found a picture of herself in each locket. "They were named after you, my dear," continued the Yellow Hen, "so I wanted all my chickens to wear your picture. Cluck cluck! come here, Dorothy this minute!" she cried, for the chickens were scattered and wandering all around the big room.

Some swell, eh?" Jimmy looked up and saw a fine home that he had admired on his way out and had deduced that it belonged to the nabob of the town. "I could do with it first rate," Jimmy assented. "All except the society stunt and that " He concluded with a little cluck of his tongue. The driver laughed. "You don't know old Tom Sayers," he said. "Old Tom doing society stunts! Humph!

Occupied from then on with classes, it was not until she had finished her last recitation of the morning and was on her way to Madison Hall that Jane remembered her resolve to see Alicia. Determined to lose no more time in putting it into execution, she quickened her pace. Coming to the stone walk leading up to the steps of the Hall, Jane uttered a little cluck of satisfaction.

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