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He was still trying to think what his life would be in the future without his girl, when two carriages drove into the yard. It was about the middle of the forenoon, and the prairie-chickens had ceased to boom and squawk; in fact, that was why he knew that he had been sitting two hours at the table. Before he could rise he heard swift feet and a merry voice. Then Marietta burst through the door.
Pantin entered. "Priscilla, will you do me a favor?" "Abram," reproachfully, "have I ever failed you? What is it?" "The next time you have something going on here I want you to invite Kate Prentice." Mrs. Pantin recoiled. "What!" "Don't squawk like that!" said Mr. Pantin, irritably. "You do it often, and it's an annoying mannerism." "Do you quite realize what you are asking?" his wife demanded.
The mutter of his denunciation could be heard above the yells of the fakers and the squawk of penny whistles. Occasionally he scruffed his forearm over his head as though fondling something that hurt him. To start those eleven rank brutes on that cow-lane of a track would have tested the resources and language of a professional.
The tame crow fluttered from the tree with a squawk and straddled awkwardly to the stump, scaring the robin into flight, and beating an inky wing against Belinda's whiteness. Belinda hit back viciously, but Becky flew over her head, and by several well-delivered nips sent the white cat mewing to the shelter of her mistress' arms.
"But Jerry!" said another child's voice, "I don't think he could have been a real hobo, or he'd have had an empty tomato-can hanging around his neck on a string, like the pictures of 'Weary Willie' an' 'Tired Tim' in the funny papers." Then ensued the sounds as of a juvenile scuffle and squawk.
We caught up with an old top buggy, curtains all on and down, a crate of ducks behind, the horse slowly jogging along at about three miles per hour. We wished to pass, but at each squawk of the horn the old lady inside simply put her hand through under the rear curtain and felt to see what was the matter with her ducks. We were obliged to shout to attract her attention.
While Old Phelps was pulling himself together, and we were wringing some gallons of water out of our blankets, we questioned the old man about the "squawk," and what bird was possessed of such a voice.
The trombone player, who had sunk low in his chair with closed eyes, looked out suddenly at the disturbance, and his alarm was blown through the horn in a startled squawk. A large woman whimpered, "Don't shoot," and thrust her palms to her ears, closing her eyes tightly. Glenister covered the deputies, from whose vicinity the by- standers surged as though from the presence of lepers.
Think of the sadness of a bird being afraid of a tree! Jakie had decided opinions about people who came into the room to see me, or to see the birds. At some persons he would squawk every moment. Others he saluted with a queer cry like "Ob-ble! ob-ble! ob-ble!"
Occasionally a sharp sound eddied the motionless silence a paddle dropped, the prow of a canoe splashed as it was lifted to the water, the tame crow uttered a squawk. Little by little the groups dwindled. Invisible canoes were setting out, beyond the limits of vision.
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