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There are, as has been reckoned, some two acres of hard ground on the island, and around vast brakes of alder-bush, full of deer and other game. Here the Somersetshire men can keep up constant communication with him, and a small army grows together. They are soon strong enough to make forays into the open country, and in many skirmishes they cut off parties of the pagans and supplies.
It was not long before they came to the object of their search. Under an alder-bush they found it a heavy fur-lined coat sodden with the river water, and a gold-mounted stick. The maker's name had been cut out of the overcoat; its pockets were empty. Martin held it up. "Did this belong to your man?" he asked, as though sure of the answer. "No," answered Dean decisively.
It must indeed have been, thought Morton, in some such spot as this that Burley was likely to find a congenial confident. As he approached, he observed the good dame of the house herself, seated by the door; she had hitherto been concealed from him by a huge alder-bush. "Good evening, Mother," said the traveller. "Your name is Mistress Maclure?"
The real home of the grakles is along the edges of the swamps not among the reeds where the red-wing and bobolink sit and swing, but rather in the bushes and trees skirting the muddy shores. They build their nests in a variety of positions, but usually a convenient fork in an alder-bush is chosen, twenty or thirty pairs often nesting within a radius of a hundred feet.
Each time when he opened his eyes he would stare at the snow-ledge till hypnotised into disregard of danger, balance his slight body, lift one hand, and go on pounding firm another shallow step. When he reached the alder-bush his heart gave a great leap of triumph. Then, for the first time since starting, he looked up. His heart fell down. It seemed farther than ever, and the light waning.
Lily waited, snuggled up behind an alder-bush, and the boys came, one by one, and she heard this whispered, although there was no necessity for whispering, "Jim Patterson, where's that hen?" "Couldn't get her. Grabbed her, and all her tail-feathers came out in a bunch right in my hand, and she squawked so, father heard.
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