Blood red the sky and misty in the east Low vapours creeping bleakly o'er the hills The rain will soon come plashing on the rills No sound in all the place of bird or beast, Save that hoarse croak that all the woodland fills.

"Why not?" he asked in his harsh croak of a voice.

The locusts hummed drowsily, as if they were almost asleep, and the frogs in the ponds sent out an occasional muffled croak.

20 Had we not been perverse and careless grown, This dire event by omens was foreshown; Our trees were blasted by the thunder stroke, And left-hand crows, from an old hollow oak, Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak.

With ointments compounded of dead men's flesh she could transform a lover into a beaver, or an innkeeper into a frog swimming in his own vat of wine and with doleful croak inviting his former customers to drink; or herself, with the aid of a little shaking, she could convert into a feathered owl uttering a queasy note as it flitted out of the window.

She mocked, with a ludicrously feminine croak, the hoarse voice of a crow sailing over them.

"Sergeant," he said in his harsh, hollow croak of a voice.

There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incuriousthey spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling on the ground.

A lizard set up a monotonous croak in the branches overhead, and insects and unseen things began to stir in the foliage.

so he sadly spoke, And voiced his woes in a mournful croak.

The locusts hummed drowsily, as if they were almost asleep, and the frogs in the ponds sent out an occasional muffled croak.

I always looked for their pleasing croak in May by the trout stream, and invariably shot several while partridge-shooting in former years.

If he hear but a raven croak from the next roof he makes his will, or if a bittern fly over his head by night; but if his troubled fancy shall second his thoughts with the dream of a fair garden, or green rushes, or the salutation of a dead friend, he takes leave of the world and says he cannot live.

In solemn croak Thus one his hungry friend bespoke: 'Methinks I scent some rich repast; The savour strengthens with the blast; Snuff then, the promised feast inhale; I taste the carcase in the gale; 80 Near yonder trees, the farmer's steed, From toil and daily drudgery freed, Hath groaned his last.

The general warbling continues, with now and then an interruption by the transient croak of the raven, the scream of the jay, or the pert chattering of the daw.

Floating on the soft south wind, a heron flies over so quietly that unless he had given one of his characteristic croaks it was a hundred to one you did not see him pass.

Let an unlucky frog give one unfortunate croak, quick, sure-aimed, flew a stone, and he raced home at night to see the miracle performed.

" "Say," said Mr. Hines in his hoarse, confidential croak, as the poet-sexton retired, "this is dead easy.

The old man who angered the war-mad throng before the Schloss on August 1st, 1914, with his discordant croak of "War is a serious business, young man," lives in the spirit of to-day.