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Accordingly this was done, but it made no difference to Mr Hickery; on the contrary, he said, in a vehement manner, that he was sure there must be some corrupt understanding among us, otherwise a matter of such importance could not have been decided by a silent vote; and at every session of the council, till some new matter of difference cast up, he continued cuckooing about the lamp-job, as he called it, till he had sickened every body out of all patience.
But it may be that, with all these cuckoos cuckooing and swallows swallowing from July to April, the country is so full of immigrants that there is no room for a stable population. It may also be, of course, that Mozambique is not the place I am thinking of; yet it has a birdish sound. The year is arranged badly. If Mr. Willett were alive he would do something about it.
And do you know, missie, the night she died she died soon after your father was born, a year after she was married for a whole hour, from twelve to one, that cuckoo went on cuckooing in a soft, sad way, like some living creature in trouble.
It wasn't "cuckooing" at all; it was real singing, like that of the nightingale or the thrush, or like something prettier than either.
It would come by-and-by to be a hard task for the stone and lime victim to hold its place, with its sinews of run mortar, against these tyrants of the wood. And then they were as full of noises as Babel itself noises a thousand times more heterogeneous croaking, chirping, screeching, cawing, whistling, billing, cooing, cuckooing. "What a place to live in!"
It wasn't "cuckooing" at all; it was real singing, like that of the nightingale or the thrush, or like something prettier than either.
"I don't know any chum I like better. She always plays the game somehow, doesn't she?" "Rather!" agreed Noreen. "I think the way she's taken her place at Cheverley Chase without cuckooing all that family out, or making them jealous, is just marvelous. If anybody deserves her kingdom, it's Princess Carmel; it's only one in a thousand who could have done what she has."
I was fearfully puzzled one day when I heard two cuckoos both cuckooing at once." They reached Kenilworth just at sunset, when a crimson sky was flaming behind the old castle, and glowing on the windows of the picturesque cottages that faced the ancient ruin from the other side of the village green.
They are not in the groves near by; you follow the sounds through the waving prairie grass for a long distance, and you find them not, and will be surprised when your western friend tells you that these are the voices of the prairie hens, miles away, holding their annual convention, the queer cuckooing not being loving sounds, but notes of war abortive attempts at crowing, which the rival males set up as they prepare to do battle with each other.
"Oh, what a warning!" cried the Goat-mother, and after embracing Pyto warmly, she turned to look for the cuckoo clock. But it had tobogganed down a steep bank into an ice stream close by, and was floating away in the distance, cuckooing at intervals as it danced up and down upon the water. Two travellers who had just reached the opposite bank, paused in astonishment to listen.
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