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"Do you think that bird singing with so much power and beauty overhead sees us at last?" "No, because he would certainly have stopped long enough to gratify his curiosity. Even a bird would want to know why strange creatures come into his thicket." "Then as long as he sings I shall know that danger is not near. We have been watched over by birds before."
You are a bird on the trapeze, and ride whew, but you can beat anything I ever saw on bareback! I knew I had seen you before when you came in this evening, but I couldn't place you. I remembered after a little. Say, Phil, I'm glad you handed it out to the Boss this afternoon." "And I am very sorry. I don't know what Mr. Sparling will think of it. Still, I had to do something.
Then, remembering that kiss she had given the giant aboard ship, he concluded that the Bird Daughter was drawn by the physical magnificence of the man, which gave him a little bitterness. So he merely set his jaw the harder and said nothing of the thing that lay in his heart to any one.
Those hurt looks, fretted looks, that hard look, already Kate had come to know them, would come, but always to go as Ann would swiftly raise her head to get the song of a bird, or yield her face to the caress of a soft spring breeze. Katie was grateful to the benign breezes, rich with the messages of opening buds, full, tender, restoring, which could blow away hard memories and bitter visions.
I tolerate nothing in my place that is not my own no man, no animal, no bird, no insect nor reptile even that will not obey my lightest order. And these creatures, great or small, who will not or even cannot obey my orders must go or die. Understand me clearly? "You have come here, actuated, I believe, by idle curiosity, but without knowledge.
"That is plain enough to understand, Nat," said my uncle. "Yes," I replied; "he means that there are plenty of parrots and other birds on some island where he will take us." "Bird, bird," cried Ebo-Nee, as we called him henceforth, and he pointed south-west.
The young prince being on a certain day hunting in the vicinity of the capital, there suddenly appeared soaring and wheeling in the air a bird, whose plumage was of the most beautiful and glossy green. The prince let fly an arrow, but without effect, and the bird suddenly disappeared.
On one occasion, the bird has been seen by one of my neighbors to thrust its bill into the water, and suck up as much as it could hold, then raising its head, it pumped it out again with four or five heaves of the neck, throwing it two or three feet, and making the sound each time.
I carried my gun along every day, but for the want of a chance to kill any game a single load would remain in my gun for a month. Very seldom a rabbit could be seen, but not a bird of any kind, not even a hawk buzzard or crow made their appearance here.
They were so regular and punctual, that a great prophet wrote: "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times." Ages ago, there were camels and caravans in Africa, but there was no Holland, for the land was still under the waves. In India, also, the stork was an old bird, that waded in the pools and kept the frogs from croaking in terms of the multiplication table.
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