Then the Wood-pigeons said, "Coo! Cool We have seen little Kay!
But tell me now, once more, all about little Kay; and why you have started off in the wide world alone." And Gerda related all, from the very beginning: the Wood-pigeons cooed above in their cage, and the others slept.
It was only the soft twitter of a bird, but it seemed to be a peculiarly gifted bird, for while she listened the soft twitter changed to a lively whistle, then a trill, a coo, a chirp, and ended in a musical mixture of all the notes, as if the bird burst out laughing.
The girl wiped her hands, crossed her feet on the little island of carpet where she was stranded in a sea of soap-suds, and then, sure enough, out of her slender throat came the swallow's twitter, the robin's whistle, the blue-jay's call, the thrush's song, the wood-dove's coo, and many another familiar note, all ending as before with the musical ecstacy of a bobolink singing and swinging among the meadow grass on a bright June day.
As she was thinking of these things the while she debated the wisdom of uncovering the baby's face, there came a little grunt from the wee bundle in her lap, and then a gurgling
coo that set her heart in raptures.
Among the company at the door were the mineralogist and the owner of the gold opera glass whom we had encountered in the Notch; two Georgian gentlemen, who had chilled their southern blood that morning on the top of Mount Washington; a physician and his wife from Conway; a trader of Burlington, and an old squire of the Green Mountains; and two young married couples, all the way from Massachusetts, on the matrimonial jaunt, Besides these strangers, the rugged county of
Coos, in which we were, was represented by half a dozen wood-cutters, who had slain a bear in the forest and smitten off his paw.
Chihun gave him a ball of spices, and tickled him under the chin, and Chihun's little baby
cooed to him after work was over.
Sometimes he came home with his head bandaged, and then Wendy
cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water, while he told a dazzling tale.
For the most part it was a silent forest, lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon
cooed or snow- white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.
According to a notification, Dr Aijaz Ahmed Zubedi, Additional Medical Superintendent (admin) BS-20 Dr Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi is hereby assigned to work as
COO at Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Institute of Trauma, Karachi, in addition to his own duties, till appointment of
COO by the Board of Governors.
Rigby has been performing the role on an interim basis since March this year, following the departure of former
COO Shirine Khoury-Haq.
Thus, the pilot will make documentation of origin a dual system, with traders having the option to use either the
COO or DOO.