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"'Ach! Mizder Fosper, you are zo coot to all de boor beebles, dough you are only a boor man yourzelf. Bot it is de boor vot is de vriendts of de boor; and in her gratitude she would have kissed my hands if I had not prudently stuck them in my trousers pockets. "A messenger now arrived to say that a refuge had been secured for the night, and my guests departed with many thanks and benedictions.
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.
He had a jolly, open, manly face, but a quick, restless eye, and the general expression of his countenance indicated at once good nature and irascibility of temper. "Coot tay, shentlemen," he said, "she is glad to see you; come, walk into her own house." He recognised and received Eldad kindly, who mentioned our names and introduced us, and he welcomed us cordially.
On the other hand, grebes and coots are eminently aquatic, although their toes are only bordered by membrane. What seems plainer than that the long toes of grallatores are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.
Down on the firm greensward there was indeed a herd of wild horses feeding; mallard and coot swam about the waters; the whimbrel laughed from the bent-sides, and three herons stood on the side of the causeway seeking a good fishing-stead.
Then the water was alive with cormorants, geese, ducks, divers, teal, coot, that swam about in amazing numbers, or, startled at the slightest noise, flew generally at a cautious distance overhead. Birds of prey were of course likewise numerous hawks, kites, vultures; and whole flights of large, black crows went by now and then, cawing vociferously.
He was frequently in Lichfield nowadays; and he renewed his demands that Rudolph Musgrave give up the exhaustively-particularized librarianship, so that "the little coot" would be removed to New York and all three of them be with Roger Stapylton always. Patricia had not been well since little Roger's birth.
In view of what had been proposed, however, he, Senator Coot, would like to ask Senator Hanway to define his position in that controversy of Silver versus Gold. No one was looking for this, no such baleful curiosity had been anticipated.
Can't you imagine him bald as a coot, with a pair of sponge-bag trousers, a little spotted tie, and a corporation?" After a pause Hirst remarked that the worst infamy had still to be told. He addressed himself to Helen. "They've hoofed out the prostitute. One night while we were away that old numskull Thornbury was doddering about the passages very late.
Angelina, with a mixture of impatience and confusion, repeated, "Excuse me, sir I am going I interrupt I beg I may not interrupt." "A coot morrow to you all, creat and small," said Betty Williams, curtsying awkwardly at the door as she went out before Miss Warwick. The young ladies were now diverted so much beyond the bounds of decorum, that Mrs. Porett was obliged to call them to order.
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