Crossword-Solution: CUCK 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then they all set to work arguing and quarrelling and crying like silly babies, when suddenly a familiar “Cuck-oo!” sounded in their ears, and they saw our old acquaintance perched on the window sill.

And as the cuck had thrown her slush at me, because I had taken part with Chowder, when he fit, with the turnspit, I resolved to make a clear kitchen, and throw some of her fat into the fire.

The cuck brazened it out, and said it was her rite to rummage the pantry; and she was ready for to go before the mare: that he had been her potticary many years, and would never think of hurting a poor sarvant, for giving away the scraps of the kitchen.

The child of nature listens with indifference to the incomprehensible sounds; but suddenly Voróbieva with her nightingale voice trills out--_The cuckóo from out the fírs so dánk hath not cúckooed._ Look what a change comes over the half-asleep listener.

The first bird to collaborate with a composer seems to have been the cuckoo, whose notes [Music illustration: Cuck-oo!] had sounded in many a folk-song ere Beethoven thought of enlisting the little solo performer in his "Pastoral" symphony.