And the transparent greenery of the limes shivers, and the young rooks swinging on the branches caw feebly.

A native woman from some unseen hut began to sing, the mail train thundered past on its way to Delhi, and a roosting crow cawed drowsily.

A big black cloud went over the sun, and all in a minute the placid waters of the lake were rasped into a pattern like the soles of new rubbersthe trees were bendingcrows cawing excitedly, and the fire, spurred by the wind, went racing through the lake bottom and on its way up the bank toward the open country.

The rooks cawed lazily in the elms before the church as if they knew it were Sunday morning and a day of rest.

One night he heard him cawing very loud, and the next morning he said to his father, "I heard Cupid talking in his sleep last night."

The ground beneath rocked with the thundering of the distant cannon, and as one peal burst louder a flock of jet black crows mounted heavenward, mournfully cawing in the semi-twilight.

A great number of jackdaws have taken up their quarters in the old towers, and as one of them kept continually cawing as though anxious to be heard, we append what we made out to be the meaning of his chatter (it is said they never speak without cause), which we call "THE JACKDAW'S CAUSERIE.

Outside, in the high elms beyond the level, well-kept lawn, with its grey old sundial, the homecoming rooks were cawing prior to settling down for the night.