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Here, towards the end of July, young Kittiwake Gulls can sometimes be found washed up on the beach some living, but in every stage of exhaustion, others dead, and in every stage of decomposition; here is the young bird, recently caught by the swell and thrown upon the shore, lying side by side with the remains of others that had previously succumbed to starvation on every side evidence of the devastation wrought by the Atlantic.
One thing Agatha wanted to know, and dared not ask, namely, what impression Vera had made in the Kittiwake and what Hubert had said about her; for she and Paula had begun to remark that, lover as he was, not a word about her heroism had escaped him. And it was as well that she did not hear what the extra plain spoken Primrose did not spare the boasting Thekla.
I shouldn't like to try and take my kittiwake in there, big as it is." The gloomy place, with its black shadowy niches and caves at the surface of the water, had a strange fascination for him. In fact, with its solemn twilight and irregular crag, arch and hollow, it looked quite an ideal entrance to some mermaid city such as is described by the poets who deal in fable.
Scarcity of suitable cliffs is the principal reason of the ledges being so closely packed with Guillemots, just as it accounts for this part of the precipice being crowded with Kittiwake Gulls, that part with Herring-Gulls, and that part again with Razorbills and Puffins.
"By all means," said the captain; and Aleck led them off at once through the sunken garden and down to the slope which led into the chasm. "My word, what a place!" said the officer, in his admiration. "Wonderful! And this is your boat-house, eh?" he added, when, followed by his boat's crew, they reached sea level and gazed into the great niche in which the kittiwake was securely moored.
She could not get home in time for it, and I was seeing the Kittiwake party on board, and only crept in at the other end of the hall in time for Bessie's faint echoes." "I was in the very antipodes," said Dolores, "in a haunt of ancient peace, whence they would not let me come away soon enough." "And, Agatha, Aunt Jane says she saw you devouring Miss Arthuret with your eyes," said Gillian.
'Does that yacht belong here? eagerly asked Lance. 'That! It is the Kittiwake Captain Audley's. 'Ha! That's what Fulbert went to Alexandria in! What fun! 'He is the son of Sir Robert Audley. Do you know him? 'His brother was my father's fellow-curate, said Felix, 'and is our guardian and kindest friend. I have seen this one in London. Will he be at this picnic? 'Not likely.
Carlsen, send the boats ashore after it. Also, keep your eye on Pankburn. If he shows signs of keeling over or going into the shakes, give him a nip a small one. He may need it after last night." For the rest of the time the Kittiwake lay in Apia Aloysius Pankburn pounded chain rust. Ten hours a day he pounded. And on the long stretch across to the Gilberts he still pounded.
He hunted out a hamper and packed it with cups and saucers, a methylated spirit-lamp, and other picnic requisites. On his way to the quay he stopped at the confectioner's and bought cakes and fancy biscuits. He placed these comestibles inside the hamper, and stowed it away in the locker of The Kittiwake. At two o'clock he was out of the harbour, and was off in the direction of Gurgan Point.
Among those able to hold their own, with proper encouragement, are the following: two loons, two murres, the puffin, guillemot, razor-billed auk, dovekie and pomarine jæger; six gulls ivory, kittiwake, glaucous, great black-back, herring and Bonaparte; two terns arctic and common; the fulmar, two shearwaters, two cormorants, the red-breasted merganser and the gannet; seven ducks the black, golden-eye, old squaw and harlequin, with the American, king and Greenland eiders; three scoters; four geese snow, blue, brant and Canada; two phalaropes, several sandpipers, with the Hudsonian godwit and both yellowlegs; two snipes; five plovers; and the Eskimo and Hudsonian curlews.
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