The rooster crows: a book of American rhymes and jingles.

The Boy crowed long and loud: "'Effer ole wile rooster widder speckly tail Commer crowin' befoh de do', En yo got some comp'ny a'ready, Yo's gwinter have some mo'.'" Then he grunted, and went on all fours.

The river itself was alive with cascoes being poled about by half-naked natives, the families of the crews doing the cooking and primitive housekeeping on the half-decks, while the family fighting-cocks strutted on the roofs of the boats and crowed defiance to each other.

Close by Tom Mulhare's dorking was crowing hoarsely, 'A hoarse bass,' said the priest, and at the end of the village he heard a bird crowing an octave higher, and from the direction he guessed it must be Catherine Murphy's bird.

Such feats in former times had wrought the falls Of crowing Chanticleers in cloister'd walls.

fairly crowed Chet.

"Well, sir, will you go?" crowed the cock of the school.

They 'd crow, 'Thar's Abe a-takin' his comfort in the Old Men's Hum, an' Angeline, she's a-eatin' her heart out in the poorhouse!'

And the Turk over there, whose comb suggests a cyst, crows Coocooroocoocoo!

You stood before her crowing the whole day.

" "Right you are," crowed the deacon, "and I'll show him a thing or two in getting over the ground," he added with swelling pride.

"Sis' JohnnieSis' Johnnie!" crowed Deanie; and then she was aware of sober, eleven-year-old Milo climbing down over the wheel and trying to help Lissy, while Pony got in his way and was gravely reproved.

A cock came up to the threshold and crowed three times, "Cock-a-doodle doo!

But that's nothing to what we're going to do," crowed Ferd exultantly.

We look for red, and foxes meet; For black, and crows our vision greet.

He did not crow half so often as he used to, and his beautiful red comb did not stand stiff

The dame made a curtsy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, "Your servant," The dog said, "Bow-wow." THE COCK AND THE HEN "Cock, cock, cock, cock, I've laid an egg, Am I to gang baare-foot?" "Hen, hen, hen, hen, I've been up and down To every shop in town, And cannot find a shoe To fit your foot, If I'd crow my heaart out.

I allers found out that when a man is gettin up in the world, that, like carrion crows hoverin over a sick animal, grumblers fly about him, lickin their chops and watchin a good opportunity to scratch him ragged.

" "We know, we know!" crowed Ivra.

" "Hurrah!" crowed Kelly softly, lifting his glass.

En little Mose put his arms roun' his mammy en lafft en crowed des lack it wuz monst'us fine fun fer his mammy ter go 'way en leabe

Lovers of booksdon't you think?' The broken question was completed by his look, and when I said that I quite understood and agreed with him he crowed his little laugh.

How should a small-eyed, feebly crowing mortal like him be quicker in arithmetic than the keen-faced forcible Aquila, in whom universal knowledge is easily credible?

And I must rise to industry; Soon as the cock begins to crow Thy mother to the fold must go To tend the sheep and kine.'

He clapped Rudolph on the arm, and crowed: "Nunnery?