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"I'm not so sure," she meditated, while she absently watched another member of the Poultry Suicide Club rush out of a safe ditch, prepare to take leave for immortality, change her fowlish mind, flutter up over the hood of the car, and come down squawking her indignities to the barnyard. "I'm not so sure about his happening No. I wonder if he could possibly Oh no. I hope not.
And she knew so much, so self-assured, and not yet nineteen. What was that odious word? Flapper! Dreadful young creatures squealing and squawking and showing their legs! The worst of them bad dreams, the best of them powdered angels! Fleur was NOT a flapper, NOT one of those slangy, ill-bred young females. And yet she was frighteningly self-willed, and full of life, and determined to enjoy it.
Crow at last consented to speak to the Muley Cow once more. And flying to the pasture, he flapped down near her. "If I had been born a calf " Mr. Crow began. But he got no further than that before the Muley Cow broke in upon his words. "If you hadn't been born a rascal everybody would have a better opinion of you," she told him. He began squawking at her at the top of his lungs.
I have four on each foot, and I can scratch up all the food I want with them." "Well," said the grumpy old Shanghai Cock, "I am sick and tired of this fuss. Common eggs are good enough for Shanghais and Black Spanish and Bantams, and I should think " Just at this minute they heard a loud fluttering and squawking in the Hen-house and the Dorking Hen crying, "Weasel! Weasel!"
"Right through Mis' Davisses hen coops! you ought to see them hens FLY!" The triumphant glee is beyond the reach of words. Simultaneous squawking verified the remark, as well as a feminine voice, urging a violent protest, cut short by a scream of terror, and the slam of a door. The inhabitants of "Mis' Davisses" house instantly appeared through the front door, seeking the street.
To the world he knew that his long waiting on the brink of the bog, while his ambitious lady floundered after false lights, was, in truth, no more impressive a spectacle than the anguished squawking of a hen who watches a brood of ducklings, of her own hatching, try their luck in the pond.
Scudamore gleefully beheaded the squawking fowl, each one of which the Bristol captain seemed to mourn, and when he had dispatched the last, he suddenly seized the sighing sailor by the hair, put his knife to his throat, and would have sent him after the birds, had not Skyrme dealt him such a blow that he fell headlong. "I supposed these were to follow!" said the doctor with a fiendish laugh.
The poultry was soundly disturbed squawking, cackling, shrieking their protests noisily while the deep baying of a dog rose savagely above the general turmoil. "Something doing there!" quoth Tom Cameron, slowing down. "A chicken hawk, perhaps?" suggested Ruth. A woman was screaming admonition or advice; occasionally the gruffer voice of a man added to the turmoil.
Squawking and yelling children swarmed over the flags and rude cobblestones that paved the ways. Like incense, heavy and pungent, the rich effluvia of stable-yards swirled in air made visible by its faint burden of mist.
"Which one of us is the woman? I been insulted by experts, but none of 'em ever called me 'Mrs. Linton. She was a tough customer, a regular hellion " "He's off again!" Tom growled. "Me lay down MY life for a squawking parrot! He'll repeat that pet word for the rest of time if I don't wring his neck." "Mebbe so you lak hear 'bout some other feller's trouble," 'Poleon broke in, diplomatically.
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