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Updated: September 9, 2025
Forty miles away, untouched by cloud or storm, the white shoulder of Donga Pa the Mountain of the Council of the Gods upheld the Evening Star. The monkeys sang sorrowfully to each other as they hunted for dry roosts in the fern-wreathed trees, and the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine- cones.
The good peasants would find their hen- roosts the poorer often, for all that he could snap up was to him fortune of war. I loved these manners little, but leave him I could not. His eye was ever on me; if I stirred in the night he was awake and watching me, and by day he never let me out of a bolt's flight.
None of the hens could have kicked it out last night, because they were all on the roosts when I shut them up. They certainly didn't do it this morning, because they wouldn't have dared leave the roosts with Jimmy Skunk here. I'll have to look into this." So he began with the second row of nests and looked in each.
Now and again small birds fled upwards with shrill twitters at our approach, and settled again to resume their interrupted suppers; but after a while they left for their roosts in the rowans and sycamores to the south, and rabbits began to show themselves in the open spaces among the furze. As if reluctantly, the perfect day drew to its close.
Nobody knows where he roosts upon the earth, if he roosts anywhere at all. The last time there was occasion for his services, this advertisement appeared in the Scotsman: 'Steeple Jack is wanted at such a place immediately' and immediately Steeple Jack became visible. In 1827 the child's toy was put to a very remarkable use by one Master George Pocock.
The court was deserted; the fowls, even, had not left their roosts. Not a servant appeared. Every door was closed. "Good! all is still," said D'Artagnan to himself. "Never mind: I am up first in the house. Let us dress; that will be so much done." And D'Artagnan dressed himself.
"All right, I won't ask I'll tell. That young feller from out West, the feller with the uncommon name Brown Jones Oh, no, Smith, that was it he came cruisin' around here and " "Uncle Shad, how did you know?" "A little bird told me. A long-legged bird without much hair on top a bald-headed eagle, I cal'late he must be. Hops round our kitchen daytimes and roosts in the attic nights." "Isaiah!
Feathers were scattered round, but feathers might have been laid there as a blind by some rascal who had divers evil designs against the hen roosts of his neighbors. Christians ought always, the major contended, to take a generous view of things before they couched the fatal spear.
I judged that the birds roosted but a few feet from the ground. In fact, a bird in all cases roosts where it builds, and the wood thrush occupies, as it were, the first story of the woods. There is something singular about the distribution of the wood thrushes. At an earlier stage of my observations I should have been much surprised at finding them in these woods.
The man has moved from the rue des Vieux-Augustins, and now roosts rue Joquelet, where Madame Jules Desmarets goes frequently to see him; sometimes her husband, on his way to the Bourse, drives her as far as the rue Vivienne, or she drives her husband to the Bourse.
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