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"Cuck-oo cuck-oo" it says, repeating the word twice, not in a brilliant metallic tone, but low and flute-like, without the excessive sweetness of the flute, without an excess of saccharine juice in the sound. There are said to be always two cuckoos seen together. The note is very soft and pleasant.
Up out of the infinite and sunlit chasm came a mocking, joyous hail up through the sheer, misty gulf out of vernal depths: Cuck-oo! Cuck-oo! Cuck-oo! And that was the way Carfax ended a tiny tragedy of incompetence compared to the mountainous official fiasco at Gallipoli. Here, a few perished among the filthy salamanders in the snow; there, thousands died in the burning Turkish gorse
"CUCK-OO," said somebody from the apple tree again. There was no doubt about it. I let my deck-chair down a rung and prepared to welcome the summer. "Now," I said, "we're off." You may believe this or not as you like. Personally I don't know what to think. I was writing my weekly story: one of those things with a He and a She in it. He was Reginald, a fine figure of a man.
We can't all have cuckoos any more than we can all have lobretias. I must come again in August, when one of the pioneers may have struggled here. Of course in Hampshire " "CUCK-OO," said somebody from the apple tree. "There!" cried Miss Middleton. "That's much better," I said. "Now make it come from the laburnum, Lieutenant." "I'm not doing it, really!" she said. "At least only the first time."
"Cuck-oo cuck-oo" it says, repeating the word twice, not in a brilliant metallic tone, but low and flute-like, without the excessive sweetness of the flute, without an excess of saccharine juice in the sound. There are said to be always two cuckoos seen together. The note is very soft and pleasant.
"But I haven't heard it here yet," Miss Middleton protested. "It was in Hampshire. The cuckoos here are always a bit late. You see, our garden takes a little finding. It isn't so well known in in Africa, or wherever they come from as Hampshire." "Yes, but when I've come down specially to hear it " "CUCK-OO," said Miss Middleton suddenly, and looked very innocent.
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