"It is usual to call the notes of this bird sad; but it only seems so from our point of view; for he is a happy, fussy little bird, and I dare say that when he calls he is only saying 'peek-a-boo!' to his mate on the other side of the tree.

" "I tole yer they warn't funny; they warn't o' that kind that peeks through them long stick glasses and puckers up their lips.

" "I tole yer they warn't funny; they warn't o' that kind that peeks through them long stick glasses and puckers up their lips.

Then the clerk pulled out the copy of Al-Hoda and rustled it, and His Honor, who had been dreaming that he was riding through the narrow streets of Bagdad upon a jerky white dromedary so tall that he could peek through the latticed balconies at the plump, black-eyed odalisques within the harems, slowly came back from Turkey to New York.

"I jest happened to be passin' by," she told me, "and I peeked in throughthrough the winder.