Presently, as he lay motionless, the timid and graceful little water-hens peered out from their doors in the rushes opposite, and, seeing no cause for fear, stepped daintily into the water, and were suddenly surrounded by little bundles of black soft down, which went paddling about in and out of the weeds, encouraged by the occasional sharp, clear, parental "Keck-Keck," and merry little dabchicks popped up in mid-stream, and looked round, and nodded at him, pert and voiceless, and dived again; even old cunning water-rats sat up on the bank with round black noses and gleaming eyes, or took solemn swims out, and turned up their tails and disappeared for his amusement.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
Book 1. Student's guide, by Dudley Miles, Edwin Greenlaw, William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck.
"U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 January - June"
U.S. Copyright Office
She bare me two or three souses behind in the nape of the neck, Till I made her old weasand to answer again, "Keck!"
"Gammer Gurton's Needle"
Mr. S. Mr. of Art
