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Better know it with the door SHUT! Jimmie Dale lifted his revolver coolly and fired through the panel. A burst of yells answered the shot; and among them, high above the others, the Magpie's scream: "We got him! We got him! He's dere now!"
Now they are quite close to us, we must stand back to give them room. Chrysantheme all at once assumes a suitable air of gravity, and Yves bares his head, taking off the magpie's nest. Yes, it is true, it is death that is passing! I had almost lost sight of the fact, so little does this procession recall it.
He had heard the magpie returning, and mad with anger since it was the magpie's theft which had thus destroyed the happiness of his life, for all might have been well had he had the letter he hastened for his gun. As he came to the orchard-gate, Kapchack, with his followers behind him, neared the wall.
No doubt there are experts to whom a wood-pigeon's nest is something apart and distinct from the nest of the magpie, but to your unsophisticated amateur a nest that is large may be anything rook's, magpie's, pigeon's, or great auk's. To such an one the only true test lies in the eggs. Solvitur ambulando.
"She's a bigger Human than the rest, and everybody's business is her business, so she's always going to law." "I know," said the Magpie, and she piped out six bars of "God save the Queen." "You are the one for the defence!" said the Swallow, quite delighted, as were all the other creatures, at the Magpie's accomplishment; "you must save the prisoner from the jury finding her guilty."
Abram Sclanders' unhappy half-witted son haunted this boat-house, it seemed, storing his shrimping nets there, any other things as well, a venerable magpie's hoard of scraps and lumber; using it as a run-hole, too, when the other lads hunted and tormented him according to their healthy, brutal youthful way. A regular joss-house, he'd made of it.
If you do it within the time, you will find at the other end a magpie's nest, in which is the ring of which you are in search. The nest also contains the crown jewels which have been stolen, and if you take these to the king, you will need no further reward. But, on the other hand, if the work is not done within the time, you will thenceforth be my servant without wages."
How easy it would be to shift the murder of the supposed Henry LaSalle to the Magpie's shoulders! Jimmie Dale's lips closed firmly. Self-preservation was, perhaps, the first law, but he would save the Magpie if he could the Magpie should have his chance!
"Did you find a magpie's nest in your Jerusalem artichokes or half-crowns in the hearts of your pickling cabbages?" "None o' your fleerin'," he replied. "What I'm tellin' you is t' truth, or if it isn't' truth it's a parable, and I reckon a parable's Bible truth. It were gettin' on towards back-end, and I'd bin diggin' potatoes while I were in a fair sweat wi' t' heat.
At last a vague form could be discerned in the dark, then slowly, by degrees, a little man, four and a half feet high at the most, frail, ragged, his face withered and yellow, his eye gleaming like a magpie's, and his hair tangled, came out shouting: "By what right do you come to disturb my studies, wretched creatures?"
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