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But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature. The Goat and the Goatherd A GOATHERD had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons.
The professor fell back, staggering to one side out of range where he sank down to the ground holding a hand to his side. So unexpected had been the shot that, for a few seconds, the boys stood dumbfounded. "I'm shot! I'm shot!" yelled the professor. Bang! A bullet whistled close to the head of Tad Butler.
He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows, sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast.
Now that Jack was standing alone, he made an excellent target for Colonel Von Roth's revolver and the colonel was not slow to realize it. Quickly he raised the revolver and fired; but at that same moment Jack suddenly took two rapid steps forward, and the bullet whistled harmlessly over his head.
He examined them with the care with which a warrior examines his arms before he goes forth to battle for his lady-love and life. The burrs were the ripe August product, as hard as filberts, and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles. Johnny whistled softly a little tune, and went out to find Billy Keogh.
Also he was handicapped in another way. He had himself never been in love before. He had liked women in that turgid past of his, and been fascinated by some of them, but he had not known what it was to love them. He had whistled in a masterful, careless way, and they had come to him. They had been diversions, incidents, part of the game men play, but a small part at most.
As he stood and watched, a new passion crept over him; he grew madder and madder as the bullets whistled past him; at last, when men began to drop by his side, he could stand it no longer, seized a musket, and rushed in, careless which side he took, 'To drink delight of battle with his peers.
"It seems to me," the patrol leader remarked, seriously, "that while all of us scouts, and the professor's party in the bargain, have been shaking hands with each other over the lucky escape we had, we've pretty near forgotten one poor chap." Jack gave a start, and then whistled softly. "That's right, Paul," he said, "for I take it you mean the crazy islander."
Then I began to roar for help and while I was roaring and running up and down looking for an axe with which to batter in the door 'burum! burum! I heard two shots and the bullets whistled to the right and left about my ears.
"Then you knew she was a married woman, Dave?" "No; but Belle did." "How, I -wonder?" "She saw the wedding ring on Mrs. Henshaw's left hand." Dan Dalzell looked the picture of amazement. Then he whistled in consternation. "By the great Dewey!" he groaned hoarsely. "I never thought of that!" "No; but you should have done so." "Dave, I'm the biggest chump in the world.
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