Every mother immediately seized upon the verse, and, setting it to music of her own, sang it as a cradle song to soothe the troubles of infanthood, and repeated it in great glee to the intelligent babe when in a crowing mood, as the poem most fitted for the infant's brain to comprehend.

Crowing hens, and those that have large combs, are generally looked on with mistrust; but this is mere silliness and superstitionthough it is possible that a spruce young cock would as much object to a spouse with such peculiar addictions, as a young fellow of our own species would to a damsel who whistled and who wore whiskers.

A girl, who was the youthful image of herself, with tresses that fell to her waist, romped with a crowing infant, whose age was so tender as scarcely to admit the uncertain evidence of its intelligence.

The crowing of a cock vibrated in the air.

Through the clear morning air I could hear the roosters crowing vaingloriously from the barnyard, and the robins were singing, and occasionally from the distant road I heard the rumble of a wagon.

When Juli opened her sorrowing eyes, she saw that the house was still dark, but the cocks were crowing.

There was no miraclethe sun was rising and promised a magnificent morning, the breeze was delightfully cool, the stars were paling in the east, and the cocks were crowing as if to see who could crow best and loudest.

THE PIGEON We can hear him crowing from our dove-cote.

A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.

THE SCREECH-OWL By his crowing!

THE GRAND-DUKE His crowing brings on enlargement of the spleen and pericarditis!

Cock-a[At this point the crowing of other COCKS ascends from the valley.

[Hearing the other COCKS crowing in the valley, he adds gently.]

[Pointing at the flower-pot.] CHANTECLER Did you see the mountain-tops tremble and turn crimson? THE BLACKBIRD While you were crowing, I had my eye on your feet.

From the agitation of Paris Clerambault passed at once to a stagnant calm, and in the long silent days all that broke the monotony was a cock crowing in a farm-yard or a cow lowing in the meadow.

Just as I finished my first song a rooster set up a violent crowing, in competition with me, and I remembered!

"Many a wassail-bout Wore the long Winter out; Often our midnight shout Set the cocks crowing,

She held on her way, clasping the baby to her breast, till from afar, to her right hand, she heard the howling of dogs and the crowing of cocks.

Within this homestead lived, without a peer For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer; 40 So hight her cock, whose singing did surpass The merry notes of organs at the mass.

More certain was the crowing of the cock To number hours, than is an abbey-clock; And sooner than the matin-bell was rung, He clapp'd his wings upon his roost, and sung: For

He said, and downward flew from off the beam; For daylight now began apace to spring, The thrush to whistle, and the lark to sing; Then, crowing, clapp'd his wings, the appointed call, To chuck his wives together in the hall.

In the morning they were both awakened by the crowing of the cocks, at an early hour.

All sounds are musical,the voices of children, the cooing of doves, the crowing of cocks, the chopping of wood, the creaking of country sleds, the sweet jangle of sleighbells.

Never did music sound so sweet as the crowing of a cock which at this moment saluted our ears.

My rooster was badly flung about, and began crowing and flapping as the basket settled.