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In this curious way came their zygodactylous bird. The wood-cut is a poor one, and exhibits certain important changes, which, on the assumption that the pipe is at all well illustrated by the cast in the Smithsonian, reflects more credit on the artist's knowledge of what a toucan ought to look like than on his fidelity as an exact copyist.
You know very well that we've had all that out before. When I put you into business I told you that we were to see no more of each other." "Business!" she said. "I never could make enough out of the shop to feed a bird." "That wasn't my fault. Putting you there cost me over a hundred pounds, and you consented to take the place." "I didn't consent.
"This is the most delicious party I ever went to," observed Maud, with her mouth full of honey, when the feast was well under way. "I do wish I could have a nice room like this, and a cat and a bird that would n't eat each other up, and a dear little teakettle, and make just as much toast as I like."
It was the hand of De la Zouch, and he withdrew with an ejaculation of anger. "There, Mistress Dorothy," he exclaimed, "did I not say the bird was but imperfectly taught, and now see here;" and he ruefully pointed to the bleeding finger.
But Fanny did not wish for them, and Mary thought it very strange that she should be willing to give her the bird, when she was so fond of it.
The women whispered among themselves, and then made signs to their husbands, or else said to them quietly: "Just let us alone we will drive the strange bird out all right." And a bitter, jeering laugh arose when it was rumored here and there, that Amrei had been a goose-girl. At last Amrei entered; but she could not offer, her hand to anybody.
Work makes him both more intelligent and more robust: disciplined by it, he seems to mount higher on the ladder of creation, while those more favored by nature remain on the step nearest to the brutes. I made these reflections while looking at the bird, whose instinct seemed to have become more acute since she had been occupied in work.
The scenery has always been fine sometimes magnificent, and there has always been a certain cheering hope, which sustained me as I lay hour after hour in the Malingam Nullah, or sat expectant amid ever varying and always beautiful glades and passes, watching the bird life, and storing up scenes and memories which I know I shall never forget.
She had some idea that it would be pleasant to go up to the church town, but just where the trees and underwood came near to the shingle a little bird singing on a May-thorn beguiled her to listen.
In one or other of these forms love has at all times been the burden of religion: the glad tidings it has always borne have been “love on earth.” The Phœnix in Egyptian myth appeared yearly as newly risen, but was ever the same bird, and bore the egg from which its parent was to have birth.
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