If the grey hens will stand round in the mire clucking humble admiration, who can blame the old blackcock for dancing and drumming on the top of a moss hag, with outspread wings and flirting tail, glorious and self-glorifying.

He came a step forward and clucked a ridiculous bow at Thevenin, and laughed still louder.

The common hen begins to cluck several days before she begins to sit upon her eggs.

" Robert Allison mechanically reached out his hand for the glass of milk which the solicitous porter held out to him and dutifully drank it, while the porter hovered over him like an anxious hen, clucking out a constant stream of encouraging remarks.

A lady oror not?" Joseph clucked his tongue admiringly.