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At Tristan d'Acunha, where, according to Carmichael, there are only two land-birds, there is a coot. From these facts I believe that the waders, after the innumerable web-footed species, are generally the first colonists of small isolated islands.
"A pest on the ban," she exclaimed. "Look at the Marsh of the Discontented Soul. It fairly swarms with teal and coot, and see the snipe on the sand." She stood up and watched the sandy strip they were nearing. They were a goodly distance out from the shore, but Pepi poled nearer midstream. "The pity of it," she sighed; "but I doubt not the place swarms with crocodile, also."
"Good morning, General Tallis," MacMaine said. "Sit down. How do you feel this morning?" The general sat again on the hard bunk that, aside from the single chair, was the only furniture in the small cell. "Ass well ass coot pe expectet. I ket ferry little exercisse. I ... how iss it set? ... I pecome soft? Soft? Iss correct?" "Correct. You've learned our language very well for so short a time."
"Nay, nay; now don't do that, lad. I teclare to coot " "Morgan!" I shouted. "Well, look you, dear boy " "Morgan!" "Oh, dear me, how is a man to speak!
The old man thought for a little. "Tat will tepend on who was pe your father, my son," he replied. "If he too will be a Cam'ell ochone! ochone! Put tere may pe some coot plood co into you more as enough to say God will pe make you, my son. Put don't pe asking, Malcolm ton't you'll pe asking." "What am I no to ask, daddy?" "Ton't pe asking who made you, who was ta father to you, my poy.
I didn't answer this, but led my horse to the gate. "Well, don't say as how I didn't tell you all about it," said Jed, going back to the bunk house. Miserable old coot! I suppose he thought he had told me all about it! Jed was always too loquacious! But I hadn't racked along more than two miles before a man cantered up who was perfectly able to express himself.
"Letty," he said, "I have just come upon this book in my library: would you care to have it?" "You don't mean to keep for my own, Cousin Godfrey?" cried Letty, in sweet, childish fashion, letting the skimmer dive like a coot to the bottom of the milk-pool, and hastily wiping her hands in her apron.
"Tat wass a fery coot sairmon today, Malcolm," he said, as they stepped from the churchyard upon the road. Malcolm, knowing well whither conversation on the subject would lead, made no reply. His grandfather, finding him silent, iterated his remark, with the addition "Put how could it pe a paad one, you'll pe thinking, my poy, when he'd pe hafing such a text to keep him straight."
"It is very sad that the hut of poor Peegwish has been carried away," observed Miss Martha Macdonald, while presiding at the breakfast-table. "Yes, it iss fery sad," responded Angus Macdonald, in a somewhat unamiable tone; "but it iss more sad that he will pe living in our kitchen now, for that wuman Wildcat must pe there too, and it iss not coot for Wildcat to live in the kitchen.
He pulled himself along the ground closer to her, and went on again in what seemed to be an extremity of doubt. "Now I don't want to be lost, and yet I don't want to have a whole lot of wives like Brigham or that old coot we see so often on the road. So what am I going to do?
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