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The wind blew fair; the kites drew capitally; the Green Dragon was, after all, not very far behind the Knight and Squire; and the Owl came too-hooing, close upon the Dragon's tail; while the General Officer seemed in a great hurry to catch the Owl, and kept singing out "Halt! halt! right-about-face," and other expressions evidently from a somewhat scanty vocabulary of military terms.
Of course this was enough to spoil most children, but Honeysuckle was not at all like other children. As sweet as the flower from which she took her name, she listened to her father's slightest command, and obeyed without ever waiting to be told a second time. Her father often bought kites for her, of every kind and shape.
Did the police get the man?" "Oh, police nothin'," said the boy. "Say, Uncle Ike, you were the easiest mark on the fair ground. There you stood, looking up at the kites, with your hands behind your back, like a jay from way back, and I knew somebody would get your watch; so I just reached up and took it, and left you standing there. I wanted to teach you a lesson.
And, of course, he had given it before when he reported in. Now we're up against it." The collision instrument was humming with the sound of many motors, and warning lights were giving their silent alarm of the oncoming ships. "They're comin' in," Spud went on hopelessly, "like a flock of kites in the tropics when one of them's found somethin' dead and it's us that's the carcass!"
Many birds have flown as high that I have seen stuffed with straw and hung up to scare kites. But hark, what a dead silence hath fallen on them at once!" "The procession pauses," said Raleigh, "at the gate of the Chase, where a sibyl, one of the FATIDICAE, meets the Queen, to tell her fortune.
THE DRAGON KITE. The most noted of all are the dragon kites, many of them over a hundred feet in length, are adapted to sail along majestically, their sinuous or snake-like motions lending an idea of reality to their gorgeously-colored appearance in flight.
"Permit me to present to you the boy Croesus the only one extant. His marbles are plunks and his kites are made of fifty-dollar notes. He feeds upon coupons a la Newburgh, and his champagne is liquid golden eagles. Look at him, gentlemen, while you can, and watch him while he spends thirteen thousand dollars for flowers!" "With a Viennese orchestra for twenty-nine thousand!" added Bragdon.
Some kites are larger than others, consequently ornithologists, who are never so happy as when splitting up species, have made a separate species of the larger race. This latter is called Milvus melanotis, the large Indian kite. It is common in the hills. It is a greyish fowl with dull brick-red wings and shoulders. Its flight is very distinctive.
His Queen was dead, and the little daughter who might have been a comfort to him he had sent away to be the prey of wolves and kites. Life had nothing left for him now. He gave himself up to his grief, and passed in any sad years in prayer and remorse. The baby Princess was left on the seacoast of Bohemia, the very kingdom where Polixenes reigned.
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