He professes "no cure no pay," as well he may, for if nature does the work, he is paid for it; if not, he neither wins nor loses; and like a cunning rook lays his bets so artfully, that, let the chance be what it will, he either wins or saves.

Clamp,united to me, Sir, this morning, by the Reverend Mr. Rook, in the holy bands of matrimony.

I guess I'll speak to Mr. Rook and have the 'fair 'tended to right away.

The oaks, they have a wiser look; Mayhap they whispered to the brook: "The world by him shall yet be shook, It is in nature's plan; Though now he fleets like any rook Across the fields to Anne.

"How did you come by your name, Lallie Joy?" "Lallie's out of a book named Lallie Rook, an' I was born on the Joy steamboat line going to Boston.

Whenever Elzevir went out foraging, he carried with him that silver-butted pistol which had once been Maskew's, but left behind the old rook-piece.

This afternoon she amused herself from her bedroom window by shooting at rabbits just beyond the wire fence of the lawn with a rook rifle; she did not hit any rabbits, but she got a gardener in the leg, and the man was very angry, and bled a great deal, and had to be taken away, and I think it was very careless of her, don't you?

" COR'BANT, the rook, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).

(French, corbeau, "a rook.") CORCE'CA (3 syl.), mother of Abessa.

The common Crow may be considered the representative, in America, of the European Rook, which he resembles in many of his habits, performing similar services, and being guilty of the same mischievous deeds.

They began to be shot at near Findon Beeches, but at first only with a rook rifle.

"Three years ago I went to Little Rook wid Mr. Fisher.

SEE Parker, DeWitt H. PARKER, GEORGE S. Rook, the game of games.

PARKER, GRACE M. Rook, the game of games.

By Joseph Francis Charles Rook.

Rook, the game of games.

SEE Parker, DeWitt H. PARKER, GEORGE S. Rook, the game of games.

PARKER, GRACE M. Rook, the game of games.

The English rook, therefore, is more astute, subtle, and cunning than our American crow, and some of his feats of legerdemain are quite vulpine.

The jackdaw is to the rook what the Esquimaux is to the Algonquin Indian; of the same form, color, and general habits, but smaller in size.

It seems that, some time agoI can't say when exactly, but it was before I came down herethis unnatural son introduced to the parental abode (which I think is either No. 5 or No. 6 in a row of young chestnuts abutting on the high road) a rook of more than dubious reputation, whom he persuaded his unsuspecting sire to put up for the night.

And there the rook has been ever since.

Whereupon the doting old parent decides that he will be a bird and back the middle thimble, and the next moment I hear the son exclaim, evidently referring to the rook, "No, 'e's got it; no, 'e's got it.

The amount of grains or grubs or whatever the stakes may be (and it is not likely that any rook would play for love), that that old idiot must have lost even since I have been here, is beyond all calculation.

We must have the azaleas out to-morrow and thoroughly cleansed, they are devoured by insects; the tame rook has flown away; mother lost her prayer-book coming from church, she thinks it was stolen.