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A. I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher, the celebrated halcyon of the ancients, about which so many tales are told. It lives on fish, which it catches in the manner you saw. It builds in holes in the banks, and is a shy, retired bird, never to be seen far from the stream where it inhabits. W. I must try to get another sight of him, for I never saw a bird that pleased me so much.
And so she used to sit propped up in a great arm-chair, with her beautiful complexion and rosy lips, staring at me or not so much at me, I think, as at nothing while I busily stitched away and told her every one of my secrets. My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, and never dared to open my heart, to anybody else.
There was a good-hearted lady, so disastrously given to expressing enthusiasm by embracing anyone within her reach that the heroes and heroines of the evening fought shy of her, and Tom made her well-known tendency an excuse for withdrawing altogether and going out to the fence behind the building where he could overlook the festive scene and smoke a cigar surreptitiously.
Had he done this at the beginning, he would have had no trouble in capturing any horse he desired, but the animals identified him as a stranger, and continued shy. The finest, which he had sought first to catch, closely watched him as he slowly approached, but at the very moment the heart of the youth was beating high with hope, he swung his head around and trotted beyond reach.
This was Betsy Bobbin, whose strange adventures had brought her to the Emerald City, where Ozma had cordially welcomed her. Betsy was a shy little thing and could never get used to the marvels that surrounded her, but she and Dorothy were firm friends and thought themselves very fortunate in being together in this delightful country.
"Yes, ma'am; and we two can regularly thank him for being alive also. That lunge gave me my chance. He's only stunned. Perhaps he'll need a nurse again. Anyhow, he'll be coming round in a minute or two. I'll wager the first thing he does is to smile. I should." Suddenly Kitty grew strangely shy. She became conscious of her anomalous position.
"Yes, miss; he would make an uncommon good runner," answered the hunter, as he regarded the animal with a critical glance "at least if he don't shy at a gunshot." "I never tried his nerves in that way," said Kate, with a smile; "perhaps he would shy at that. He has a good deal of spirit oh, I do dislike a lazy horse, and I do delight in a spirited one!"
He'll learn his place there, which, it strikes me, he and others too are apt to forget at home." Then followed discussions and arrangements respecting his clothes. And then they came to the plan of spending a day at Mr. Buxton's, which Mrs. Browne was rather shy of mentioning, having a sort of an idea of inconstancy and guilt connected with the thought of mingling with the world again.
Despite the warmth of the August sun, Julie Heppner grew worse day by day; but this was nothing to her in comparison with the burden of mental suffering which almost overwhelmed her. She watched her husband and sister with a gaze that never faltered. She saw with horror how Ida became less shy of her and abandoned herself more and more to her passion. Nor was this hidden from her husband.
'Oh, my! said the clown, laying a great red hand on his heart, 'what a nice little gal you are, ain't yer? Come and sit by me, my dear! 'No, thank you; I'm going to sit by Aunt Mary, she replied, looking rather shy and surprised. 'Allow me, missy, he persisted, 'to pass you the strawberry-jam and the muffins! 'I'll have some jam, thank you, she replied. He looked round and chuckled.
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