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When I take something away from him or he thinks I mean to do so, or refuse him something he wants, he stands still and jerks his feet in such a way that they stamp with a loud sound, as if they were of iron. It is very droll. In serious anger, he adds to this, bowing and curtsying by bending the legs, snapping the bill, pecking, and jumping up with the body without lifting the feet.
'Ah, you're always so clever with your wonderings', said Peter and Paul again, 'as if you'd never heard a woodpecker hacking and pecking at a hollow tree. 'Well, well', said Jack, 'I think it would be a piece of fun just to see what it really is. And so off he set to climb the rock, while the others laughed and made game of him.
Turning a corner he came upon a hen-house and there was a crowd of hens and half-grown chickens about the very dish into which he had seen the remnants of the breakfast thrown, all pecking billfuls out of it.
The night after he disappeared from my window, he was heard pecking at the window of the little girl's chamber, but no one noticed him; so he stayed about the house till morning, and flew in when the window was opened, and was found perched on the cage of his old companion. Great was everybody's astonishment, as you may imagine. There was no mistaking him, it was Willie, and no other.
Other monuments of equal rank there are, too, and altogether, whether it be the mere hurried pecking of a bird of passage, or the more leisurely attack of the studiously inclined, Rouen offers perhaps much greater attractions than are possessed by any other French city of equal rank.
As for the little crawling flies and other insects, it was wonderful how fast they were snapped up; and though people would say that Tom-tit and his wife did a great deal of mischief by pecking the buds, it was quite a mistake; for though they pecked the buds, it was almost always when some sly little insect had made itself a hole in the bud, where it would have laid eggs, and its young would have totally destroyed the tree.
Her lips opened to the morsels, as with a bird's bill, though with none of the pecking eagerness we complacently observe in poultry. 'But now, I say, positively, how about that article? said Quintin. Dacier visibly winced, and Constance immediately said 'Oh! spare us politics, dear uncle.
The next room to this, you know, is the one where we kept the snails. I have been helping John with these for some time, and it is my custom, when he goes on 'Change, to look after the ugly creatures, and especially to open the boxes and give them air. I turned, and was horror-stricken to find him perched on the boxes, and pecking away at the poor snails, as if they were strawberries!
"How much do you pay for good articles, Mr. Brooke?" "H'm! the News is not equipped for paying very much for anything," replied the other, pecking at the machine, "but if I could get a really good article on the situation at present or anything, the farming outlook, for instance, I would be willing to pay something for it."
The yard was quite a curiosity, and seemed to be given up entirely to pigeons and chickens, who made a great fuss, flying up on the old woman's shoulder and pecking at her; while an old duck waddled solemnly after, giving a quack once in a while to let them know she was there. Mrs. Wills took them to the hen-house, and told them where to look for eggs.
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