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Updated: June 27, 2025
Alas, for the uncertainty of this world! No sooner did the news of the approaching marriage reach the ears of Mrs. Partlett and her daughters the aunt and cousins of Mr. Gamecock than they vowed it should never be. It appears that Mr.
The meadow-lark, the boy's delight, was picking seed, gravel, and insects' eggs in the fields large and partridge-like, with breast washed yellow from the bill to the very knees, except at the throat, where hangs a brilliant reticule of blackish brown; his head and back are of hawkish colors umber, brown, and gray and in his carriage is something of the gamecock.
Olimpia burst into a shrill laugh, and Angioletto, who had the pluck of a little gamecock, turned to his partner in guilt. "And you, Madonnetta," he said sweetly, "what do you say to boars head larded?" Bellaroba giggled in spite of herself for she was terribly frightened but again Olimpia, the grand indifferent, pealed her delight.
"So ho, my little gamecock, my little schooner with a swivel," said he who had called himself Jack Ball, "and where can this valiant butcher be found?" "He waits in the street," I answered more boldly. "Split me fore and aft if he waits long," said Jack, draining the rest of his rum.
"Let me see him fight!" as if he had been a pet gamecock or bulldog. "You can break a lance, fine sir, if it please you," said the chatelain. "I break more than lances," quoth Hereward as he cantered off.
A white horseman was coming down the mountain, and as he passed, and while he paused to exchange salutations with myself, Hoka was still staring and ruffling like a gamecock. It was a Corsican who had years before called him cochon sauvage cocon chauvage, as Hoka mispronounced it.
A man often carries his gamecock with him as a negro would carry a dog, and he is as ready to back his judgment with his last centavo as was the owner of Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog" before that ill-fated creature dined too heartily on buckshot. Sundays and saints' days are the days for cock-fighting and both come pretty often.
"That's true, my young gamecock!" she shouted, in a deep voice, strangely cracked. "And so you're at your old tricks again, are you? Talking sedition I'll be bound. I've half a mind to turn informer and have the law on you. The dear lamb!" she added, to the other woman. "Good morning, Mrs. Macanany," said Nellie, laughing. "We haven't got yet so that we can't say what we like, here."
So matters went on for a time. At last, one fine day Mr. Howlet was seen to drive up to the Hall, and take in with him a large document. The whole village was astir: something must be going on, every one said; and within two days it was known that the document in question was a marriage-settlement, and that the wedding of Lady Rooke and young Mr. Gamecock was to take place in the following week.
He’d met the gamecock breed before and had never known the need to bristle at their crowing. Now he was disturbed that Shannon could prick him so. Odd, the other had been successfully turned from his purpose here.
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