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"Once upon a time there was a Chinaman living in the valley of the Hoang-Ho River, who was accustomed frequently to lie on his back, gazing at, and envying, the birds that he saw flying away in the sky. One day he saw a black speck which rapidly grew larger and larger, until as it got near he perceived that it was an enormous bird, which overshadowed the earth with its wings.

And he hoped that some unwary fish would swim up near the surface of the water within diving reach of his great claws. His keen gray eyes were open all the while unsleepily, and not much that was going on down below on the water escaped his notice. Suddenly his eye caught sight of a little black speck on the waves.

She's so noble herself that she makes you feel as if you wouldn't want to be less so. She doesn't care for anything but the elevation of our sex; if she can work a little toward that, it's all she asks. I can tell you, she kindles me; she does, mother, really. She doesn't care a speck what she wears only to have an elegant parlour. Well, she has got that; it's a regular dream-like place to sit.

Shading their eyes, and straining their ears, the astonished people stood until the whole vision disappeared like a speck in the clouds the rosy clouds that overhung the Beautiful Mountains. King Dolor was never again beheld or heard of in his own country.

She watched hint, rubbing the blinding mist from her eyes, until horse and man became a mere dark speck, finally fading away completely into the dull plain of the desert. Keith rode straight forward into the sandy desolation, spurring his horse into a swift trot.

Then he dipped into the valley and lost sight of the speck, found it on the bridge, dipped again, and again it was lost to view. It was not until the fence of Glum Starkadsson's farm was plainly in sight, that he caught another glimpse of it. But this time it was coming toward him, from the gateway. Certainly that long crimson cloak and full crimson hood belonged to Helga.

The Special Senses. The Special Senses. In man certain special organs are set apart the particular duty of which is to give information of the nature of the relations which he sustains to the great world of things, and of which he is but a mere speck.

But what a peculiar pain it was!" "Drive the idea out of your head and swallow some comforting cordial. And now go and look after our confidants." Ivan was still a little pale, and it seemed to him as if the master's face also was of an odd yellow colour. "How yellow the sky is!" said he, looking up, "not a speck of blue anywhere.

Then he became silent, and Pierre realised that his eyes were once more travelling towards Rome, gazing with ambitious anguish at the dome of St. Peter's, that little, sparkling speck above the vast, ruddy plain. What a commotion, what agitation if the Pope were dead!

Already an aasvogel was hovering above; a mere speck, the great bird poised upon widespread wings, high up in the illimitable blue. Presently there would be a flock of these carrion feeders, that are not averse to fresh-killed meat when it is to be had. Bough remounted, and, humming a dance tune that was often on his lips, rode away over the veld. The great vulture wheeled.