Eh, thou'rt a chatter-box! COMETAS.

"His teeth did chatter chatter chatter still."

The bronzes tinkled laughter fine; I heard a chuckle argentine Ring from the silver images; Even the ivory netsukes Uttered in every silent pause Dry, bony laughs from tiny jaws; The painted monkeys on the wall Waked up with chatter impudent; Pottery, porcelain, bronze, and all Broke out in ghostly merriment, Faint as rain pattering on dry leaves, Or cricket's chirp on summer eves.

She was glib, pert, mundane, her mind a chatter-mill; a creature of fur, paint, hair, and absurdly young.

Her cousins had their own particular friends, who were not slow to vote the silent girl with the mournful grey eyes, full of dumb questioning, a bore; while Evadne, accustomed to being her father's companion in all his scientific researches, found their vapid chatter wearisome in the extreme.

Another must needs answer him with something equally irrelevant; a long chatter ensues, in spite of all cries to order and question.

Then he indulges in a fit of merriment at his own jokes'chatter-chatter-chat-chat-chat-chat-chat' he says, calling his own name as he slips away to the security of a catbrier or barberry bush.