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Before Bab could agree to this satisfactory arrangement, Thorny appeared, singing, as he aimed at a fat robin, whose red waistcoat looked rather warm and winterish that August day, "So he took up his bow, And he feathered his arrow, And said, 'I will shoot This little cock-sparrow." "But he didn't," chirped the robin, flying away, with a contemptuous flirt of his rusty-black tail.
The military system under which everything was conducted the bugle-call, followed by the music of a very good band, at reveille; the light, animated strains for "sick-call," and soon after for "breakfast;" the longer ceremony of "guard-mounting;" the "Old English Roast-Beef," to announce the dinner-hour; the sweet, plaintive strains of "Lochaber no more," followed most incongruously by "The Little Cock-Sparrow," at retreat; and, finally, the long, rolling "tattoo," late in the evening made pleasant divisions of our time, which, by the aid of books, music, and drawing, in addition to household occupations, seemed to fly more swiftly than ever before.
"Mr Malcolm," cried the captain, in great wrath, "how came you to cut off my dog's tail?" Before I went to sea I had always considered a London cock-sparrow to be the truest emblem of consummate impudence; but I have since discovered that he is quite modest compared to a midshipman. "Me, sir?" replied the youngster, demurely. "I didn't cut off his tail, sir; he cut it off himself!"
"A wonderful woman, Signor Marchese," said the little impresario, trotting along with short steps by the side of the Marchese, and rising on his toes in a springy manner, that made his walk resemble that of a cock-sparrow. "Truly a wonderful woman.
'Don't ask me! wailed the cock-sparrow; 'it isn't manners to ask questions when a body is in deep mourning. But the pipal would not be satisfied without an answer, so at last poor bereaved cock-sparrow replied 'The ugly hen painted. By jealousy tainted, The pretty hen dyed. Lamenting his bride, The cock, bald and bare, Sobs loud in despair!
'What's all this? says I; ''t ain't here they belong; I bought nothing to-day. 'Don't be scolding! says she, and Mickey got out of it laughing. 'I 'm going to be cooking for meself in the morning! says she, with her head on one side, like a cock-sparrow. 'You lind me the price o' the fire and I'll pay you in cakes, says she, and off she wint then to bed.
"A little fellow named Furneaux is coming here to dinner at seven-thirty. Said he would drop in by the back door, and mutter 'Hush! I'm Hawkshaw, the detective. He resembles a cock-sparrow, so I asked him why he didn't fly in through an attic window.
Whereupon the cock-sparrow was so distracted with grief that he picked off all his feathers until he was as bare as a ploughed field. Then, going to a pipal tree, he sat all naked and forlorn on the branches, sobbing and sighing. 'What has happened? cried the pipal tree, aghast at the sight.
To her annoyance, her pencil drew a little round figure on the blotting-paper, which, she could not deny, was really a bald-headed cock-sparrow. She looked again at Mr. Clacton; yes, he was bald, and so are cock-sparrows.
"Come, young cock-sparrow," said Doubleday, returning from announcing the distinguished visitor, "you're wanted inside. They want you, too, Batch." We entered. Billy, as usual, was more at his ease than any one else. "What cheer? Well, what do you want to arst me?" he cried, jauntily.
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