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However accurately some people are directed, they appear to have the greatest difficulty in finding their way, while others, more fortunate, remember prominent features on the route, and pick out their course as accurately as does a homing pigeon.
Sometimes when they were tired or warm with walking they would climb into the top of some tall tree, and there swinging among the cool new leaves, Helma began telling them her World Stories again, while the children looked off over the trembling forest roof and watched for homing birds.
The maidens in thy lonely room, Thy tapestry on silent loom But hush! Where is Elaine? Elaine, hast thou forgotten? Thy castle in the valley lies, Elaine, hast thou forgotten? Where swift the homing swallow flies And in the sunset daylight dies But hush! Where is Elaine? Elaine, hast thou forgotten? Night comes at last on dreamy wings, Elaine, hast thou forgotten?
He is never free thereafter. The metropolis may send him forth like a carrier-pigeon, and he may think he is well rid of his mistress, but the homing instinct inevitably draws him back. "All other pleasures," as Emerson said of love, "are not worth its pains." Myra thought that she hated New York the great nervous sea of life, whose noise and stress and tragedy had shattered her health.
I have already pointed out to you very briefly the different habits of the breeds of Pigeons, all of which depend upon their physiological peculiarities, as the peculiar habit of tumbling, in the Tumbler the peculiarities of flight, in the "homing" birds, the strange habit of spreading out the tail, and walking in a peculiar fashion, in the Fantail, and, lastly, the habit of blowing out the gullet, so characteristic of the Pouter.
Angle, strength and Doppler movement were computed to find course and distance. A few minutes of flight were enough to get within range of the far weaker transmitter in the drop-capsule. Homing on this signal was so simple, a human pilot could have done it himself. The shining sphere loomed up, then vanished out of sight of the viewports as the ship rotated to bring the spacelock into line.
What was he thinking? For a moment, her heart fluttered towards him like a homing bird. Then in a sharp and stern reaction she rebuked, she chastened herself.
This is no light boast, for at one time or another, I have done all this, but in only one place the Botanical Gardens of Georgetown, British Guiana. As I hold it sacrilege to think of dying without again seeing the Taj Mahal, or the Hills from Darjeeling, so something of ethics seems involved in my soul's necessity of again watching the homing of the herons in these tropic gardens at evening.
And the tendency of middle-aged Pittsburgh millionaires to marry chorus-girls is notoriously like the homing instinct of pigeons. Something it may be the smoke seems to work on them like a charm. In the case of Andrew Galloway, Nature had been thwarted up till now by the accident of an unfortunate attachment in early life.
The area of operations includes the British Isles, Egypt, the Dardanelles, Malta, the Mediterranean ports, India, Mesopotamia, East and South Africa, Canada, Australia, and out to the last limits of Britain's far flung battle line. The Y M C A has a strong homing instinct, aiming to provide "a home away from home."
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