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Rum, my turning up just after Miss Lorne had written you and at a time when we both are needed, wasn't it?" "Very," said Cleek, pulling out a cigarette and stretching himself full length upon the ground. "Would as soon have expected to run foul of a specimen of the Great Auk endeavouring to rear a family in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar Square. Well, what's it now, Mr. Narkom?
The Little Auk can only be considered a rare occasional wanderer to the Channel Islands, generally driven before the heavy autumnal and winter gales. I only know of the occurrence of two specimens: one of these was recorded by Mr. Couch in the 'Zoologist' for 1875, as having been killed on the 30th January in that year; and I had a letter from Mr.
Perhaps nowhere was it found so abundantly as on the coasts of Eastern Newfoundland and on Funk Island hard by. The Great Auk was in such numbers on the north-east coast of Newfoundland that the Amerindians of that country and of southern Labrador used it as fuel in the winter time, its body being very full of oil and burning with a splendid flame.
A few moments later he reappeared, carrying a large bird in his arms. The creature which he had thus killed with man's most primitive weapon was a specimen of the great auk a bird which is now extinct.
The Great Auk which could not fly swarmed in millions on the cliffs and islets. So abundant was this bird, and so fat, that its body was sometimes used as fuel, or as a lamp. In the summertime their fish and flesh diet could be varied by the innumerable berries growing wild strawberries, raspberries, currants, cranberries, and whortleberries.
The most important are the bison and Arizona elk. NEW YORK: Heath hen, passenger pigeon, wild turkey, great auk, trumpeter swan, Labrador duck, harlequin duck, Eskimo curlew, upland plover, golden plover, whooping crane, sandhill crane, purple martin, pileated woodpecker, moose, caribou, bison, elk, puma, gray wolf, wolverine, marten, fisher, beaver, fox, squirrel, harbor seal.
"'I can't be blackgum nor nothin' else, said Pearson, 'if I don't get no help; specially if I don't get no help from the party what's goin' to get a lot of the money. "Abner reflected. 'If we was to set any auk eggs next month, it'll be well on into next summer before we'd have eggs to sell. "Pearson also reflected. 'Yes, he said; 'and it might be a little later than that.
"Well," he said, with a great dip of nose down into his smile, "whad can I do for you?" He reminded Lilly of a great auk, something alcidine in the thin cheeks with the mouth cutting so widely toward the ears. She had not realized it, but suddenly the terrible, the impersonal detachment of the past weeks smote her.
Bernard monstrosity out of the ring. This is a class for collies, not for freaks. I refuse to judge that pup as a collie." "He's a thoroughbred," crossly protested the Master. "I have his certified pedigree. There's no better blood in " "I don't care what his ancestors were," snapped the judge. "He's a throw-back to the dinosaur or the Great Auk. And I won't judge him as a collie.
"'Would you divide the thirty-six hundred dollars even? now very much interested. "'Divide! sneered Pearson. 'Do you suppose I'd sell 'em? No, sir; I'd set 'em under a turkey, or perhaps a big hen. Then, sir, I'd go into the great auk business. I'd sell auk eggs, and make my fortune, and yourn too. "'And young ones, if we get a lot? "'No, sir! exclaimed Pearson. 'Nobody'd own no auks but me.
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