She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with her elbow and said with a cackle of delight, "I think you guys should make some more of those brownies, 'cause that boy looks hungry.