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Its flight is very characteristic, consisting of a few rapid flaps of the pinions followed by a sail on outstretched wings. The median pair of tail feathers is much longer than the others, the pair next to the middle one is the second longest, and the outer one shortest of all. Thus the tail, when expanded during flight, has a curious appearance. We now come to the jays.
The doctor was stowed away in the wagon and Miss Gillespie had drawn the tent flaps round the mystery of her retirement. David and Leff, too tired to pitch theirs, were dropping to sleep by the fire, when the girl's voice, low, but penetrating, roused them. "Daddy John," it hissed in the tone children employ in their games of hide-and-seek, "Daddy John, are you awake?"
All my endeavours could scarce keep their dirty fingers from handling and tarnishing the lace on his cloaths, and lifting up the flaps of his pocket holes, to see what was there. At the approach of evening he took leave; but not till he had requested permission to renew his visit, which, as he was our landlord, we most readily agreed to.
A day later, Dan came to his senses. A tent was above him, a heavy blanket was beneath him and there were clothes on his body that felt strangely fresh and clean. He looked up to see Chad's face between the flaps of the tent. "D'you do this?" "That's all right," said Chad. "This war is over." And he went away to let Dan think it out. When he came again, Dan held out his hand silently.
The master of hounds mopped his forehead. "Are we still going toward Samson South's house?" he inquired. "We're about a quarter from hit now, an' we hain't never varied from the straight road." "Will they be apt to give us trouble?" Jim Hollman smiled. "I hain't never heered of no South submittin' ter arrest by a Hollman." The trailers examined their firearms, and loosened their holster- flaps.
"To-morrow evening at eight o'clock the first performance of the Greatest Show in Europe a unique opportunity better book your seats early, ladies and gentlemen " Then the flaps of the tent fell and all the lights and sounds seemed to go out at once.
When Edith put his fur cap on his head and proceeded to pull the flaps down over his ears, he laughed and said: "What are you doin' that for?" "It's freezing cold outside," she answered. "An' in tin minutes' time what'll matter a frozen ear or so to poor Michael Dennin?" he asked. She had nerved herself for the last culminating ordeal, and his remark was like a blow to her self-possession.
Do you think that you are to trample me under foot, and that I will not have my revenge? You said it was a foolish business that I did. I will make it worse than foolish." He stood with his hands in the pockets of his broad flaps, looking at her, not knowing how to answer her. He was no coward, not such a coward as to be intimidated at the moment by the girl's violence.
Your arrow merely broke the wing of yonder sea eagle, and he is just recovering from the shock. What a magnificent fellow! How wrathfully and vengefully his eyes sparkle! How fiercely he stretches his brave head toward us in helpless fury, and step back! how vigorously, spite of the pain of his poor, wounded, drooping pinion, he flaps the other, and raises his yellow claws to punish his foes!
One could never tell what was likely to come into one's tent at night, even with armed askaris patrolling the camp all night long. One cold night, before Little Wanderobo Dog had come to live with us, I was awakened by a curious rustle of the tent flaps. I listened and then watched the tent flap for some moments, thinking that the wind might have been responsible.
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