Hour after hour rung from the cuckoo-clock in the hall, but still she lay awake, watching the curious shadows in the room, and exciting herself with recalling the tales of German goblins with which the courier had amused them the day before.

A cheap and somewhat dilapidated cuckoo-clock and toy velocipede flank the famous globe of the world in diamonds and precious stones.

R115575, 6Aug53, Arthur S. Pederson (Wr) The cuckoo-clock shop.

The cuckoo-clock shop.

R115575, 6Aug53, Arthur S. Pederson (Wr) The cuckoo-clock shop.

The cuckoo-clock shop.

CUCKOO.This bird, which obtained its name on account of the similarity of its note to that of the Cuckoo-clock, was one of the earliest sufferers of the housing problem, which it successfully solved by depositing its eggs in the nests of other birds.

He pops in and out of my office like a figure on a cuckoo-clock.

" [Illustration: "He pops in and out of my office like a figure on a cuckoo-clock."

What awakes late in the afternoon at four o'clock is only the red-hawkweed, and the night watchman as cuckoo-clock, and these two only tell the time as evening-clocks and moon-clocks.

Lodged on the sixth story, rich in the possession of a cuckoo-clock, a canary, half a dozen pots of mignonette, and some bits of cheap furniture in imitation mahogany, she has every virtue and every fault that is charming in womanchildlike gaiety; coquetry; thoughtless generosity; the readiest laugh, the readiest tear, and the warmest heart in the world.