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There is the clapper's tink-a-link, tink-a-link -- an interval of silence -- then the occasional tink, tink, tink, to be followed, perhaps, by a repetition of the first-named sounds, varied occasionally by a compound of all, caused by the animal flinging its head to free itself from troublesome flies or mosquitoes.
The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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