But one day he was unwise enough to start chattering, when they at once saw through his disguise and pecked him so unmercifully that he was glad to escape and join his own kind again.

He reached in and grabbed, and the incensed biddy pecked viciously.

She put them in the cage with the owl and he pecked at them hungrily.

The enchanter immediately took the form of a cock and industriously pecked at the grains on the floor.

Those hens pecked the catch loose, and that cockatrice fairly staggered them.

There it was that Frederick discovered Percival feebly and mournfully pecking at a vanilla ice.

Curiously enough, there are many instances of the birds placing pebbles instead of nuts in holes they have purposely pecked for them.

They were very happy little creatures, and chased each other about the room, and flew on Miss Laura's head, and pecked saucily at her face as she sat sewing and watching them.

The cock bird saw the tragic fate of its partner; but, nothing daunted, flew at the dog with a fierce cry, and pecked savagely at its face.

Outside was the cab, Arnold extremely efficient in browbeating the driver as to the stowing away of bags, more kisses, in the general cloud of which Arnold pecked shyly at Sylvia's ear and Judith's chin; then the retreating vehicle with Arnold standing up, a tall, ungainly figure, waving a much-jointed hand.

" With one thought onlythe longing for liquid of any kind but salt water-we sat in crazy deck-chairs under the iron verandah, where a few starved chickens pecked unhappily at the dust.

From the pulpit he could look right out into the square, and as he looked he became aware of a hen surrounded by her young family pecking vigorously on the pavement in search of food, and clucking as she pecked.

Yes, her mother was shrewd enoughthat could not be deniedbut she was not so shrewd as she imagined; for it had never occurred to her, and it never would occur to her, even in the absurdest dreamthat the author of Mr. Cannon's visit was the girl sitting opposite to her and delicately pecking at jelly!

Presently, my mother knelt before it and began searching for fragments of paper, which she believed crows had wantonly pecked off and dropped to the ground.

At last he fancied he saw a rival in this brilliant, irridescent reflection and pecked fiercely at the glass, breaking several panes.