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"I'm wondering if Mrs. Heron and that chap are on their way to the Sands' ball. If Heron doesn't mind letting them enjoy each other's company, why should I butt in?" "Mr. Heron was in the car," Clo insisted gravely. "It was dark inside, but I saw his face at the window." "You must have sharp eyes," said Justin. "The window looked black as a pocket to me." "You think I imagined it. But I'm sure!
I can remember my father describing what it was in his and his father's days; how there used to be scores of servants, and as many as fifty horses in the stables; with the great place filled with guests summer and winter, spring and autumn. The Squire Heron of that time never rode behind less than four horses, and once, when he was high sheriff, he rode to meet the judges with six.
"Of course all the other fish darted away in great fright, but Mr. Heron didn't mind. He settled himself in great contentment, for now he was less hungry. By and by some foolish tadpoles came wriggling along. 'I'll just try catching one of them for practice. Maybe they are good to eat, thought Mr. Heron, and just as before darted his head and great bill downward and caught a tadpole.
An officer in the service of the Eastindia Company, and a particular friend of mine, had like to have lost his life by not paying a proper deference to this whimsical notion; for being some time in that part of the country, and happening to shoot a heron, he was immediately arrested and prosecuted for it by one of the natives.
"As she did on the Sunday night at our hotel when you had your little attack. Heron, I've married that girl; the most wonderful girl in the world." Heron stopped short. "That girl! you have married that girl?" "Yes," said Justin, "I married her this morning. So, if you'd been inclined to forbid the banns, you're too late." For an instant Heron did not speak.
From the suppleness of the jaguar's paw, it is able to remove the double armour of the creature, and to scrape out the flesh with the greatest neatness. It will even pursue the turtle into the water when not very deep. It also digs up its eggs; and, together with the alligator, the heron, and the gallinazo vulture, captures large numbers of the little turtles recently hatched.
After the first blow, the large wings of the heron expanded, and checked the rapid fall; the falcon was fixed upon its back, holding the neck in its sharp beak, while it clung to the body with its claws. In this position the two birds slowly descended towards the ground, twirling round and round in their descent from a height of about 1000 feet.
The sister looked at her keenly, but said very gently: "You can put it in the box in the hall when you go out; but you will not go to-day. I will arrange for you to stop until to-morrow; in fact, the baby none of us could spare you. I want you to have some ten with me in my room to-night and a little talk, Miss Heron."
"That," replied the freedman, "will be unnecessary, for it is not likely that the fierce brute belongs to the community whose friendship I am proud to claim; and, if it does, they will be as much grieved over the matter as we can be." "A Christian would never do another an ill turn!" said Heron, with a shrug. "Never, so far as justice permits," replied Andreas, decisively.
In his carving, therefore, of a hawk, a bear, a heron, or a fish, it seems highly probable that the mound sculptor had in mind a distinct species, as we understand the term.
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