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Of the birds found in their sculptures were vultures, eagles, kites, hawks, owls, ravens, larks, swallows, turtle-doves, quails, ostriches, storks, plovers, snipes, geese, and ducks, many of which were taken in nets. The Nile and Lake Birket el Keroun furnished fish in great abundance. The profits of the fisheries were enormous, and were farmed out by the government.
I recall Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape, a beautiful, poetical series of views, but hardly more poetical than the reality. How thoroughly England is groomed! Our New England out-of-doors landscape often looks as if it had just got out of bed, and had not finished its toilet.
Birket had gone, Aunt Ellen said, "You may take my word for it, sister, that it is owing to the Clinton connection. We have lived a retired life, but I know very well how these things tell." As Cicely dressed for dinner it was the first time she had been alone during the day she thought about Jim, and what he had said to her, or tried to say to her, early in the morning.
But far be it from them to show a brother of their nephew's wife that he was not welcome among them. They talked of the weather, of Blackborough Castle, of Jim Graham's return, and of Walter's coming marriage with Muriel. "Well, that will be the first wedding in the new generation," said Mr. Birket. "But there will be another very soon.
"I should be a jolly sight more uncomfortable with you," said Jim. "And I've got keen on the Empire since I've been travelling." "Oh, if you've seen it," said Mr. Birket, somewhat cryptically, and then the door opened, and Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Birket came in together. Mrs. Birket was a tall, good-looking woman, who held herself upright, was well dressed and well informed.
What would your old aunts do without you, or your mother, or indeed anybody in the place? They would all miss you, every one. Don't run away with the idea you're not wanted. Of course you're wanted. We want you, only we can't have you because they want you here." "You give me a better conceit of myself," she said gratefully. "Keep it, my dear, keep it," said Mr. Birket.
For instance, at 13, Birket Street, Limehouse, there is living a Japanese gentleman named Futashima, who works at Badcomb and Martin's mother-of-pearl factory. I think that if you were to call on him, and let him try on the hat that you have, it would probably fit him." The inspector scribbled ravenously in his notebook, and Mr.
The anchoring-place is in a large bay, one of the best harbours on this coast, and the wells are about half an hour's distance inland, under a grove of palm and Doum date-trees. The route of the Egyptian Hadj passes here; and for its convenience, a birket, or reservoir, has been constructed.
I tell you, the country gentlemen are the backbone of England, and your party will find it out when you've turned them out of the country." "Oh, but we shan't do that," said Mr. Birket. "That would be too dreadful." "No politics," said Dick. "We're five to three. Tom, you're a country man, I'm sure." But the Rector was not at all sure that he was.
Finally, at the end of a very pleasant day's progress across the desert, accomplished at a low rate of speed on Ida's account, in order that she might not be subjected to a too rapid change of temperature in their southward progress, after enjoying the spectacle of a superb desert sunset, they came to earth for the night some twenty-five miles west of Lake Birket el Keroon.
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