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Even under ordinary conditions grasshoppers are a staple food of many members of the shorebird family, and the following species are known to feed on them: Shorebirds are fond of other insect pests of forage and grain crops, including the army worm, which is known to be eaten by the killdeer and spotted sandpiper; also cutworms, among whose enemies are the avocet, woodcock, pectoral and Baird sandpipers, upland plover, and killdeer.
"Maybe we better try smoother ground," Baird at last suggested after repeated falls had shown that the undergrowth was difficult. So the cameras were moved on to the front of a ranche house now in use for the drama, and the spur lessons continued. But on smooth ground it appeared that the spurs were still troublesome. After the first mishap here Merton discovered the cause.
It seemed that the intensity of his own cry for justice and mercy had arrested at least one of the actors in it before the curtain fell. A few nights later, as they sat together, Baird and Latimer spoke of this incident and of the lecture it had followed upon. "Repentance! Repentance!" Latimer said. "What led you to dwell upon repentance?" "Thirty years of life," was Baird's answer.
That boy is worse than a pestilence in any neighborhood. Mr. Baird seems to have no control over him." Suddenly, and without any apparent reason, Mr. Lowington's compressed lips and contracted brow relaxed, and his face wore its usual expression of dignified serenity. Harry could not understand the cause of this sudden change; but his uncle's anger had passed away. The fact was, that Mr.
Turn the juice on, open up the old mufflers." The men went back through the rear doors. The late caller would here have left, being fed up with this sort of stuff, but at that moment he descried the Montague girl back behind a light-standard. She had not noted him, but was in close talk with a man he recognized as Jeff Baird, arch perpetrator of the infamous Buckeye comedies.
As soon as the whole rampart was captured, General Baird sent an officer with a flag of truce to the Palace, to offer protection to Tippoo and all its inmates, on condition of immediate surrender. Two of Tippoo's younger sons assured the officer that the Sultan was not in the Palace.
"Thanks, comrade," Oswald said, as he slung his long two-handed sword from his shoulder. "A likely-looking young fellow, indeed," Baird said to Rotherglen, whom he had sent for to be present; "over six feet and, I should fancy, has not attained his full width. "So you would fain take service with me?" he said.
But whatever amusement Baird had in this thought was concealed behind his sober gray eyes. Soon after that he took his leave. "Now then," Roger reflected, with a little glow of expectancy, "if Edith will only leave me alone, she may find I'm smarter then she thinks!"
At the word permission Betty looked up. It struck her that Maud might not have considered it necessary to ask for permission. "May I go to her room?" she asked Mrs. Baird. "Certainly." Betty opened the door and looked up at the wall over the bed. As she had expected Maud's snow shoes were gone from their accustomed place. She explained to the teachers.
When John Baird called later in the day, Miss Amory was walking in the sun in her garden and Susan was with her, supporting her stiff steps. She had been fed, her dress had been changed for a neat print, and the dragged lines of her face seemed already to have relaxed.
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