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The poor bereaved duck exhibited evident signs of grief at her loss. Retiring into a corner, she sat disconsolate all day. No longer did she preen herself, as had been her wont. Scarcely could she be induced to waddle to the pond, nor would she touch the food brought to her. It was thought, indeed, that she would die.
As soon as the horn sounds, thousands of ducks start the maddest of Marathon races back to their respective junks, which they never mistake, with such a quacking and gobbling and pushing of each other aside, as the ungainly fowls waddle along at the top of their speed, as must be witnessed to be credited.
He has a great predilection for turning to the left that he apparently thinks is the right side for small appeals of a special character; and when he gets back again, for the purpose of either looking at his book or sending out a new idea, he makes a short oscillating waddle a sharp, whimsical, wavy motion, as if he either wanted to get his feet out of something or stir forward about half an inch.
The General watched him waddle through the door from under his pent brows, a half-humourous, half-menacing expression on his face. "A windbag; a coward; a man without a heart for good or for evil. Bah! nephew, that is Hans Coetzee. I have known him for years. Well, let him go.
But the cold was getting to us. We only had a few men working at woodcutting Cesário, and old Piet Dumont, and Abe Clifford and I, because we were the smallest and could wear bigger men's parkas and overpants over our own. But as long as any of us could pile on enough clothing and waddle out of the hut, we didn't dare stop. If the firewood ran out, we'd all freeze stiff in no time at all.
"Lord bless you, Mr Simple my lord, I should say he's been neither bull nor bear for these three years. He was obliged to waddle; if I didn't know much about bulls and bears, I know very well what a lame duck is to my cost. We're off the Stock Exchange, and Mr Handycock is set up as a coal merchant." "Indeed!"
Countess, a carriage from Dorset House awaits you." But Lucille sat still, and Mr. Sabin rose slowly to his feet. "I thank you, Prince," he said, "for throwing away the mask. Fighting is always better without the buttons. It is true that I have failed more than once, but it is also true that my failures have been more magnificent than your waddle across the plain of life.
Waddle started, and stood with his mouth open, looking up at his friend. "Base, mercenary, false-hearted loon! What is it that he wants?" "Old Neefit's money. That's it, you know."
So they called the seal "Flossy", and warmed frozen milk for it great stores of which had been taken on board, and fed it with a spoon, and soon the wee thing knew Pansy, and used to crawl and waddle after her. The dogs didn't know what to make of Flossy at first, and Briton used to roll it all round the deck with his big nose; but Flossy rather liked this.
The Seal is nearly always hungry, but so wonderfully quick that his hunting is made easy for him. It is quite another matter on land, where his best pace is a waddle and a shuffle; but his life is in the wide sea, where he can feed and sleep as easily as other mammals can on land. Seals are easily tamed, and soon become fond of their owners.
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