He has even been known to fearlessly peck at flies on window panes.
Then they boldly peck about the dog's plate by the kitchen door and enter the barn-yard, calling their feathered friends with a sharp tseep to follow them.
Before flying up to a twig to peck off the insects, the birds have a pretty vireo trick of cocking their heads on one side to investigate the quantity hidden underneath the leaves.
I have seen one alight in the middle of my canoe and peck away at the carcass of a beaver I had skinned.
Another favorite pastime is to strip the bark off a tree, then peck at the soft wood underneath -- almost as fatal a habit.
Sister Peckat length began to feel the weight of what she had done, but she could not recall it.
A few sticks cinnamon Sweet Pickles Tomato and Fig Pickles One peck of green tomatoes sliced and salted in layers, place in granite boiler over night.
Peck joined at Petersburgh; the other two, Elders S.
Peck came up and joined the camp about noon, and Stephen Shumway and Charles Wood came up in the afternoon.
In Western tradition, the devil, or black monster, becomes a cock in order to peck at the pearl or ring of the young hero who has become wise.
A Hindoo brahmanic tradition transforms into partridges the scholars of Vaicampayanas to peck at the Vedas of Yagnavalkyas.
Then the woodpecker becomes furious in its desire of vengeance, and begins to peck now at the peasant, and now at his horses; the peasant tries to flog the woodpecker, instead of which he flogs the horses to death.
Cassandra told me yesterday that Bertha Peck is embroidering a silk scarf for me, and here I haven't a thing for her!
Mercedes will room with Bertha Peck who was here last year, and Tabitha we will try with Chrystobel Clayton.
Peck made important contributions to the publications of the early historical societies in the Northwest.
Grand Prairie, as described by Peck in his Gazetteer of Illinois, was a general term applied to the prairie country between the rivers which flow into the Mississippi and those which empty into the Wabash.
The worst is, I hear that furious eagle, fluttering and hissing just below me, and I am every moment in fear lest she should attack me, and peck my legs to revenge her wrongs.
There is a tufted titmouse; now he flits to the ground, picks up a tidbit, darts up to a twig, places his morsel under his claws, and proceeds to peck it to pieces.
With his stout, conical beak he is able to break the shell of an acorn, peck a corn grain into swallowable bits, and tear open the toughest casing of a cocoon.
She looked at him for a moment with a savage glitter in her dark eyes, then began to peck him angrily right in the mouth, and drove him peremptorily backward down the limb.
SHORT AND CRISP CRUST FOR TARTS AND PYES To half a peck of fine flower, take a pound and half of Butter, in this manner.
Since I have added half a peck of Malt to the former proportions, to make it a little stronger in Winter.
Then mince half a peck of Spinage, and two great Onions very small, and let it boil one hour or more; season it with salt as you please, and send the Mutton and the Marrow-bone in a dish with French bread or Manchet to the Table.
TO MAKE A PLUMB-CAKE Take a peck of flower, and put it in half.
To make Goose-pyes, and such of thick crust, you must put at least two pound of Butter to half a peck of flower.
I sho didn't never go nowhar else wid dat fellow, 'cause my good old mistess said he would git me in a peck of trouble if I did, and I had done larn't dat our mistess was allus right.
Two-and-a-half pounds of meat, a quantity of syrup, and a peck of meal were given each adult for the week.
They stood about two foot and a half tall, and when they went to peck the ground their tail feathers stuck straight up to the sky.
He had a little grey flicker in his eye, and I thinks to myself that maybe they'd get Dutchy on the peck yet.
They were furious with the little yellow bird and wanted topeck her to death.
He tried to peckhim once or twice but stepped aside, abashed.
Mrs. Peckand her daughter, Mrs. Shank, of Stuart, were also aboard.
Put a peckof fresh soot into a coarse sack, and hang it in a tub containing 30 or 40 gallons of water; leave it there for eight or ten days; then remove it and throw in half a peck of fresh lime.
Messrs Rivers[5] recommend "that a peck of soot should be strewed on the surface in a circle 3 feet in diameter round each (dwarf) tree in March.
Soot (1 peck to 30 gallons of water) allowed to stand till the liquid is clear, given once or twice a week, is very helpful.
Ku thereupon shouldered a peck of rice, and, knocking at their door, presented it with his mother's compliments.
The former made a violent peck at its adversary, and then sprung up to swoop down on it.
Every peck or bushel he would share with them, the widow trusting entirely to his support; and thus he acquired a good name in the village, though not being a rich man himself he soon ran through all his own property.
But to see the slaves feasting on the fat of the land you certainly would not be reminded of the "peck of corn," except by contrast.
For example,--by law a master may not furnish his slave with less than a peck of corn a week.
Mr. Peck hesitated for a split fraction of a second.
Mr. Peck leaned over the corpse, revealing none of the repulsion that Ward was sure he would exhibit.
Yet Mr. Peck performed his own autopsy and saved eight men from death!
Mr. Peck glared into the doctor's eyes as he shot the accusation.
By now Mr. Peck had sterilized the glass with the alcohol and was prepared to make his test.
Christian set to work and Mr. Peck and Ward retreated to the machine.
Mr. Peck made no immediate answer, but turned and leaned closer to the corpse, examining the faint red blotches on the cheeks with more care than he had at first taken.
When Christian had completed his work, the trio returned to headquarters, Mr. Peck leaving again to "do a little thinking.
Mr. Peck opened the envelope and extracted a sheaf of currency.
He could have," Mr. Peck conceded, "but there would be no object in attempting to conceal his method of killing his confederate.
Sander told Peck that he was the owner of a fine mare named "Ethel Burns," and that he would place her on Peck's farm if he purchased it.
Peck found that this priest was a keen judge of horses and their love for horses established a bond of friendship between them.
He informed Peck that this lady had a young son, and that he would bring both the mother and son to the farm at Far Hills, N.
After this vagabond had made this denial, Mr. Peck was again seen at Far Hills, N.
Peck told Priest Sander that he had just sold a stock farm at Millington, N.
They gave him many fair words, promising if he would take away the rope to give him a peck (mette) of money if he came to that same place before sunrise.
He did as directed, and there he found the Dwarfs, who did not expect him, with the peck of money.
