[The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cuckoo Clock CHAPTER I 13/15
_Something_ was going to happen.
Suddenly two little doors above the clock face, which Griselda had not known were there, sprang open with a burst and out flew a cuckoo, flapped his wings, and uttered his pretty cry, "Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!" Miss Grizzel counted aloud, "Seven, eight, nine, ten." "Yes, he never makes a mistake," she added triumphantly.
"All these long years I have never known him wrong. There are no such clocks made nowadays, I can assure you, my dear." "But _is_ it a clock? Isn't he alive ?" exclaimed Griselda.
"He looked at me and nodded his head, before he flapped his wings and went in to his house again--he did indeed, aunt," she said earnestly; "just like saying, 'How do you do ?' to me." Again Miss Grizzel smiled, the same odd yet pleased smile that Griselda had seen on her face at breakfast.
"Just what Sybilla used to say," she murmured.
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