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His wife, weary with anxiety and watching, was trying to get a nap in the easy chair, when, suddenly, close by them, as if in the very room, came an indescribable screech, an unearthly, long, shrill cock-a-doodle-do yell, such as only a fancy feathered biped can perform. The poor invalid screamed with horror, and his wife would have screamed too, had she not thought first of her dear patient.
And the mother said, 'Keep silence! thou beast of ill-omen! wilt thou make me burst with misery? Then the cock spied, and called out: 'Cock-a-doodle-do! see here comes Letiko! And the mother said again: 'Be quiet! thou bird of ill-omen! wilt thou make me burst with misery?
Now and then as we got deeper into the dark, cool shade caused by the leafed dome above, we heard the shrill cry of the long-legged mountain cock a cry which I can only describe as an attempt at the ordinary barnyard rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do" combined with the scream of a cat when its tail is trodden upon by a heavy-booted foot.
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