Crossword-Solution: CHATT 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign; The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; Dogs howled, and hideous tempest shook down trees; The raven rooked her on the chimney’s top, And chatt’ring pies in dismal discord sung; Thy mother felt more than a mother’s pain, And yet brought forth less than a mother’s hope, To wit, an indigested and deformed lump, Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.

Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Is absent hence._ _The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor The boding raven, nor chough hoar, Nor chatt’ring ’pie, May on our bride-house perch or sing, Or with them any discord bring, But from it fly._ Enter three Queens in black, with veils stained, with imperial crowns.

Alas, in vain! for while, sweet soul, she tries To measure all those wild diversities Of chatt’ring strings, by the small size of one Poor simple voice, raised in a natural tone, She fails; and failing, grieves; and grieving, dies; She dies, and leaves her life the victor’s prize, Falling upon his lute.

The result was excellent; but no serious effort was ever made to put the manioc bread on the market.] [Footnote 50: I must mention a surreptitious dish, _chatt_;--needless to say the cats are not sold, but stolen.

The chatt'rèn birds, a-risèn high, An' zinkèn low, did swiftly vlee Vrom shrinkèn moss, a-growèn dry, Upon the leänèn apple tree.