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Sure enough, Oliver appeared at the moment, dragging a heavy spar behind him. Several of the men appeared at the same time, staggering through the bushes, with various loads of wreckage, which they flung down, and noisily began discussing their experiences as they lighted the fires and prepared breakfast. "Here comes Little Stubbs," cried Jim Heron. "What fortune, comrade?"
So we thought it had fared also with the snowy heron, but recently we have had word from the wardens of the Audubon Society that a remnant has escaped; a few pairs of the birds have been discovered along the Gulf coast so hardly can Nature forgo her own! So far away does the mother of life hide her child, and so cunningly!
Near the furthest hut in the hamlet stood a peasant woman in a short petticoat, with long thin legs like a heron. She was sowing something. A white dust floated languidly from her sieve down the hillock. Now it was evident that she was singing. A couple of yards from her a little bare-headed boy in nothing but a smock was standing motionless.
"My companies are each about 200 strong, and the officer captured with me was its captain." "General Heron also reports to me that your retreat was admirably carried out," General Foy said, "and that no body of French veterans could have done better.
"Not in an hour, citizen Heron," he said, and his voice flow was scarce above a whisper, "nor yet in two." "You are a fool, man," said Heron roughly. "You have had seventeen days of this. Are you not sick of it?" "Heartily, my dear friend," replied Blakeney a little more firmly.
Possibly my informant overstated the case; but in any event I would trust the major to bear himself like a philosopher. If there is any one of God's creatures that can wait for what he wants, it must be the great blue heron. I have spoken of his caution. First he put up his head an operation that makes another bird of him and looked in all directions.
"They must have had news of Percival!" Then she read the message and turned pale. "What is it?" said one of her friends, coming to her side. Kitty held out the paper for her to read. "Elizabeth Murray, Queen's Hotel, Muirside, to Miss Heron, Merchiston Terrace, Edinburgh. Your father has met with a serious accident, and is not able to move from Muirside.
It was but wave and sky and the familiar fowl of the lake, as coot, and mallard, and heron, and now and then a swift wood-dove going her ways from shore to shore; two gerfalcons she saw also, an osprey, and a great ern on his errand high up aloft.
"And you cannot tell me what the danger is?" "We cannot," he answered, "but you must pay no attention to anything that happens or to anything that is said to you by others. There are only two men on the Heron whom you can trust and here we are. But there may be wild happenings on the Heron. Keep your courage and trust hi Angus McTee and "
The young man hurried after the thief, as he supposed him to be, but there the spy flung the cloak back to him, saying, in a tone of command, though not loud, for there were still many persons among the graves: "Hands off, son of Heron, unless you want me to call the watch! I have seen your face by the light, and that is enough for this time.
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