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Ratus shifted from one spot to the other when the harrier made his cat-like pounce yes, he was something cat-like, too and had the pleasure of seeing the harrier's uninviting talons grab a clawful of grass, which, by all powers of judgment, ought to have been black rat's fur. A mere hawk, or even an owl, might have considered this rebuff enough, but not the harrier.
He wafted himself ten feet aloft on his long narrow vans, and, flapping owl-like, or almost butterfly-like, began to beat, and the beating of the harrying harrier, up and down, is one of the most trying ordeals, for the game beaten for, in the wild. Mrs. Ratus sat where she was, he presumed, playing the same bluff.
Omnia certo tramite vadunt, Primusque dies dedit extremum. Non illa deo vertisse licet Quae nexa suis currunt causis. It cuique ratus, prece non ulla Mobilis, ordo. Here we have in all its naked repulsiveness the Stoic theory of predestination.
The prominence he has given to it in his writings makes it almost equivalent to a precept. The burden of his achievements is the continual repetition of quam celerrime contendendum ratus, maximis citissimisque itineribus profectus, and other phrases describing the rapidity of his movements.
Ratus, having vanished past finding while the hunt to the hole was on, presently scented her lord out, when the night had come and the harrier was gone, and together, starting like antelope at every hint of a sound, they traveled up the ditch, and up the bank of a stream that the ditch folded into.
Ratus had gained a lively dislike for this hawk-owl combination, greater than his respect which itself was not small for owl or hawk. Seeing nowhere to go, and nothing to hide in when he got there, our Mr.
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