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But no Sergeant Kite, who ever practised the profession of recruiting, was more attentive that his object should not escape him, than was Christie of the Clinthill. He indeed conducted Halbert Glendinning to a small apartment overlooking the lake, which was accommodated with a truckle bed.
They are simply rather large falcons. They are mostly coloured very like the kite. All true eagles have the leg feathered to the toe. I give this method of diagnosis for what it is worth, and that is, I fear, not very much, because eagles as a rule do not willingly afford the observer an opportunity of inspecting their tarsi. The imperial eagle has perhaps the darkest plumage of all the eagles.
'I am sure, sir, no one could have shown greater presence of mind than the young ladies, said that gentleman; and her father's 'I am glad to hear it! would have gratified Gillian the more, but for the impish grimace with which Wilfred favoured her behind Kalliope's impassive back. The kite-fliers turned, not without an entreaty from the boys that they might go on alone and fly their kite.
Thereat he fluttered eagerly a twinkle of time, and the next was down with his beak in the neck of the kite, crimsoned in it. Now, by the shouts and exclamations of Shibli Bagarag, the Princess and the seven youths, her brothers, knew that the bird had performed well his task, and that the fight was between Koorookh and the kite. Then he cried gladly to them, 'Joy for us, and Allah be praised!
Benjy promised to manipulate the check-string with care. The struggling natives were ordered to let the kite straighten the slack of the line gradually. "Are you ready, Ben?" "All right, father." "Got your hand on the check-string? Mind, it will pull hard. Now let go!" The natives obeyed.
It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before. It had torn itself out of his hand and floated away. "Michael's kite," Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him. "It lifted Michael off the ground," he cried; "why should it not carry you?" "Both of us!" "It can't lift two; Michael and Curly tried."
Plunket afterward puzzled Lord Redesdale still more when arguing a cause in chancery. His lordship took the word literally, and declared he did not understand the matter. "It is not to be expected that you should, my lord," said Plunket, "for in England the wind raises the kite, but in Ireland the kite raises the wind."
As a matter of fact, however, he is sailing serenely on. They have an annoying habit of doing that, these Boches. Zeppelins as well as the stationary kite balloons and the swiftly flying airplanes often tempted the fighting aviators to attack.
Thus he might bring down the kite and the humming-bird with one stone. While the sunny-haired ornithologist was pursuing his studies the Cisco Kid was also attending to his professional duties. No true artist is uplifted by shooting an aged man carrying an old-style .38 bulldog. On his way the Kid suddenly experienced the yearning that all men feel when wrong-doing loses its keen edge of delight.
And going down to the shore, she would lay the child among the strings of her kite and send it up to where Gamma-gata blew a wide breath over sea and land. As it went she would hear the child crow with joy at being so uplifted from earth, and laughing to herself, she would think, "When he sees his child so patterned after his own heart, Gamma-gata will be too proud to remain long away from me."
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