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." "Something very much like a cuckoo, brother ?" "I see what you are after, Jasper." "You would like to get rid of us, wouldn't you ?" "Why, no, not exactly." "We are no ornament to the green lanes in spring and summer time are we, brother?
and the voices of our chies, with their cukkerin and dukkerin, don't help to make them pleasant ?" "I see what you are at, Jasper." "You would wish to turn the cuckoos into barn-door fowls, wouldn't you ?" "Can't say I should, Jasper, whatever some people might wish." "And the chals and chies into radical weavers and factory wenches, hey, brother ?" "Can't say that I should, Jasper.

You are certainly a picturesque people, and in many respects an ornament both to town and country; painting and lil writing too are under great obligations to you.

What pretty pictures are made out of your campings and groupings, and what pretty books have been written in which gypsies, or at least creatures intended to represent gypsies, have been the principal figures! I think if we were without you, we should begin to miss you." "Just as you would the cuckoos, if they were all converted into barn-door fowls.

I tell you what, brother, frequently as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time, and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character.