The chickens hatched by the Sun, here, are far too numerous for counting, and they are curses of the kind that will assuredly "come home to roost.

If Gray Stoddard marries Johnnie Consadine, you and me will just about roost in the penitentiary for the rest of our days.

They don't need any houses, for they roost in the trees the year round.

It would seem as if a little "blood and iron" had come home to roost; even as the sea birds do upon his forehead.

The bats now roost in the roofless timbers that the 12-inch shells have left.

He beat at the empty air for a moment like a rotund fowl about to seek its roost.

The various churches are ruled by "leaders"men of a deaconly frame of mind, invested with power sufficient to enable them to rule the roost in ministerial matters, to say who shall preach and who shall not, and to work sundry other wonders in the high atmosphere of church government.

Dowthwaite made himself unpleasant about his broken wall, the Askews turned the grouse back, and then I found the Allerby cottage children, ransacking Redmire Wood when the pheasants were going to roost.

z THE LETTER Z, OR ROOST.

It must serve as a roost, Or lose the last place.

[Illustration: THE LETTER Z, OR ROOST.

As long as he was winnin' Sandy was the king of any roost.

* From Wolfert's Roost.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

There orthodox classicism still held sway; the manner and metre of Pope or Thomson ruled the roost of singing fowl.

In America, the "boys" get up so early, that it is said they frequently "catch the birds by their tails as they are going to roost;" and it is no doubt owing to this that they are so 'cute.

The poultry to their quiet roost, where they can fatten in the sun; the birds of passage to their wandering life of song, sometimes in a flowering garden, sometimes in the cold and storm!"

Robbers' roost.

Robbers' roost.

Robbers' roost.

My word for it, Cecil, she's found a safe roost.

All your daintiest Dells too I will deflower, and take your dearest Doxyes From your warm sides; and then some one cold night I'le watch you what old barn you go to roost in,

This big fellow hopped up from limb to limb of the huge dead pine, and he bobbed around as if undecided, and tried each limb for a place to roost.

In the midst of all these fears, it began to be whispered about, that if any chickens were concerned in the motion, it was Cary's chickens; and that the attack, though nominally on the hen-roost, was in reality on the wood.

They thought nothing of spending a whole night going from one turkey roost to another, if half a dozen fine birds were the reward.