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So that was the way of this bloody business thought Jan as, swifter than a bullet, Bill registered another visit to his streaming right shoulder. There was no trace left now of that queer stubborn sort of bulldog glory in the endurance of punishment which Jan had shown during the first half-dozen attacks. His stern was still erect, bladelike, his hackles almost as stiff as before.
All came at once flying towards her, speckled, white, and gleamy with hues between of tawny orange-gold, the cocks, magnificent with the bladelike waving of their tails, and, as they chattered and cackled and pressed and crowded about her, pecking the corn, even where it lodged in the edge of her little shoes, she said, "Poor things, I am glad they enjoy it!" and even this one little act of love to the ignorant fellowship below her carried away some of the choking pain which seemed all the while suffocating her heart.
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