[Illustration: THE CHIRP OF THE GRASSHOPPER.]

She would search a short time, and then sit down, and he always came out of his hiding-place, chirping in a saucy way to make her look at him.

A startled snow-bird chirped to her, as she passed.

Ay and, ever to the ending, Cricket chirps at need, Executes the hand's intending, Promptly, perfectly,indeed Saves the singer from defeat With her chirrup low and sweet.

He is the mocking-bird of squirrels, pouring forth mixed chatter and song like a perennial fountain; barking like a dog, screaming like a hawk, chirping like a blackbird or a sparrow; while in bluff, audacious noisiness he is a very jay.

You, for instance, when you are over your fourth or fifth jorum, chirping about old school occurrences, are the best of realities.

The song of the old bird seems after this period hardly necessary to the offspring, who keep up an incessant chirping from the moment of leaving their nest until they are able to accompany the old ones to the woods, whither they retire in the latter part of the season.

The bronzes tinkled laughter fine; I heard a chuckle argentine Ring from the silver images; Even the ivory netsukes Uttered in every silent pause Dry, bony laughs from tiny jaws; The painted monkeys on the wall Waked up with chatter impudent; Pottery, porcelain, bronze, and all Broke out in ghostly merriment, Faint as rain pattering on dry leaves, Or cricket's chirp on summer eves.

WHY, THEY CHIRP THROUGH THEIR LITTLE NOSES LIKE WEGULAR YANKEES.

The whole valley was deserted and silent in the dazzling light and the overwhelming heat, and only the grasshoppers uttered their shrill, continuous chirp among the sparse yellow grass on both sides of the road.

No cricket chirped under the hearth, no fly buzzed on the window-pane, no spiders came forth from the dilapidated, dangling webs.

all the birds are singing Low, as thou passest, where in leaves they lie; With timid chirp unto their soft mates clinging, They greet that presence without which they die, Die, even with Nature's universal heart, When thou, her queen, dost in thy pride depart, Adelaïda!

Say when For me shall be broken the charm, that I chirp with the swallow again?

And there was such a twittering and chirping amongst all the small birds, just as if it were a great feast.

Proud of my golden fetters I chirped for Joy; she confident of my lameness, Soon disintangled me & then she percht me Upon her naked breast.

It seemed as if a great peace had settled upon those ivy-clad walls, or it might be the calm that is the solemn presage of storm, and Sir Julian himself quiet beyond his wont seemed to portend the calamities that were to ensue; and after his breakfast stood at a window watching the dripping trees and whistling so softly one could not tell whether 'twere he or the birds chirping without.

The few words they did speak were of the purposeless and irrelevant sort in which unacknowledged lovers do so universally express themselves in their earlier moments alone together,a sort of speech more like birds chirping than like ordinary language.