The woods are calm and the ripe colors are blazing in all their glory; the cone-laden trees stand motionless in the warm, hazy air, and you may see the crimson-crested woodcock, the prince of Sierra woodpeckers, drilling some dead limb or fallen trunk with his bill, and ever and anon filling the glens with his happy cackle.

A loud, screechy cackle emanated from her throat.

Whatever the woman could lay hands on she hid away; a hen could not cackle

She'd know her cackle any place, and Milt's wife told Mrs. Porter to shut upshe needn't talk about eavesdroppers,good land!

An' didn't I square with him by takin' what I wanted?" "Gold?" The old dry cackle answered the question; the bleary eyes were bright with cunning.

A few times she heard them laugh; she could distinguish Brodie's throaty, bull tone and Benny's nervous cackle.

She heard him from a distance; he was talking to himself excitedly, jabbering broken fragments of sentences, twice breaking into his hideous dry cackle of laughter.

It was for some reason thought judicious for the society to hold its meetings in various places, now here, now there; but the most frequent rendezvous was the Café des Exilés; it was quiet; those Spanish Creoles, however they may afterward cackle, like to lay their plans noiselessly, like a hen in a barn.

" There was a cackle of surprise and laughter among the steamer's officers, in which Frank and some of the passengers joined; and the saucy little "fishing-boat" came steadily on in the wake of her gigantic tide.

"No, no," laughed the General, with a cackle, and a patronising hand upheld against the mere thought.

"While we sit here and cackle like Asian birds, Commodus renames Rome the City of Commodus and still lives!"

" The frightened cackle of the hens, the rattling of pots and pans by the assiduous housewife in the kitchen, were unheeded by the lovers, "emparadised in one another's arms."

And all this assumption of the obsolete and impossible the author gravely proves in all the forms of logic, by arguments drawn from the history of Æneas, and the providential cackle of the Roman geese!

But still, all their cackle unheedin', She goes, in her ladylike way, A-givin' the poor what they're needing And helpin' the church every day: Our numbers each Sunday is swelling And real, true religion is rife,

Again: most of them may be repeated in the same word, if not in the same syllable; as in bibber, diddle, fifty, giggle, high-hung, cackle, lily, mimic, ninny, singing, pippin, mirror, hissest, flesh-brush, tittle, thinketh, thither, vivid, witwal, union, dizzies, vision.

" "Bien, bien, Monsieur," cried the Duchess, tapping her fan against her long, thin fingers and breaking out into an appreciative little cackle.

DYER, MURIEL W. Kindred of quack and cackle.

DYER, WALTER ALDEN. Kindred of quack and cackle.

Oh yes, and I am a scholar: I can cackle in Greek: I can wrangle about God's name: I know Latin and Hebrew and all the cursed little pedantries of my trade!

Or we are told, amidst our impatience for the event of a battle, that on a certain day Mr. Winker, a tide-waiter at Yarmouth, was married to Mrs. Cackle, a widow lady of great accomplishments, and that as soon as the ceremony was performed they set out in a post-chaise for Yarmouth.

When the reader has contemplated with envy, or with gladness, the felicity of Mr. Buckram and Mr. Winker, and ransacked his memory for the names of Juniper and Cackle, his attention is diverted to other thoughts, by finding that Mirza will not cover this season; or that a spaniel has been lost or stolen, that answers to the name of Ranger.

that's a good un," was Billy's reply; and he continued to cackle as though enjoying a great joke.

" Minver gave a harsh cackle.

But at least it was on the level of their soldiers' witthough I own, at the most, no great matter to cackle of.

I have heard an emperor proclaimed with less cackle.