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Dencroft's in a body trotted along at the side of the road, shouting as they went. Crake, hearing the shouts, looked round, almost fell, and then pulled himself together and staggered on again. There were only a hundred yards to go now, and the school gates were in sight at the end of a long lane of spectators. They looked to Kennedy like two thick, black hedges.
I'll tell you another thing: there's a bird builds somewhere in the cliffs there a crake, the people call it and they say that whenever he goes crying about the sands, it means that a man will be drowned there." "Rubbish! I don't believe in your city." "Very well, then, I'll tell you something else. The fishermen have seen it five or six of them.
The carter, Giles Crake, who had found the body, was a stupid yokel whose knowledge was entirely limited to his immediate surroundings. Perched on his cart, he had seen the body lying in a ditch half full of water, on the other side of an earthen mound, which extended along the side of the main road. The spot where he discovered it, was near Beorminster, and about five miles from the gipsy camp.
It seems to be rather more numerous in some years than others, as occasionally I have heard them craking in almost every field. But the last summer I was in the Islands I heard very few. The Corn Crake arrives and departs much about the same time as in England, and I have never been able to find that any stay on into the winter, or even as late as November.
"You see the way of it was, last night, no great while after we'd all gone asleep, I woke up suddint, like as if wid the crake of a door or somethin', but, whatever it might be, 'twas slipped beyond me hearin' afore I'd got a hould of me sinses rightly.
"Well," she said, "so be it; but I should like the guest to have spent an hour or two in the Park." "The Park!" said Dick; "why, the whole Thames-side is a park this time of the year; and for my part, I had rather lie under an elm-tree on the borders of a wheat-field, with the bees humming about me and the corn- crake crying from furrow to furrow, than in any park in England. Besides "
"I can't think why anybody should learn Latin," said Tom. "It's no good." "It's part of the education of a gentleman," said Philip. "All gentlemen learn the same things." "What! do you think Sir John Crake, the master of the harriers, knows Latin?" said Tom, who had often thought he should like to resemble Sir John Crake. "He learned it when he was a boy, of course," said Philip.
'Gerard told me I was supporting the cause of intemperance yesterday because I was so wicked as to carry the rest of your bottle of port, Miss Headworth, to poor Anne Crake. 'Well! he is a dear boy, and youth wouldn't be youth if it were not sometimes rather foolish, said Miss Headworth, 'and it is better it should be for good than evil. 'Eager in a cause and not for selfishness, said Mary.
And some do say," Taffy wound up, "that his brother was not really drowned, but turned into a bird, and that, though no one has seen him, it is his voice that gives the 'crake, imitating the sound made by John's heart when it burst; but others say it comes from John himself, down there below the sands." There was silence for a minute. Even Honoria had grown excited toward the end.
"It does just as well, and better," said little Joan, "for if anyone comes we can see him coming up the field-path." "Just so," said So-so, blinking in the sunshine. Suddenly Joan jumped up. "Oh!" cried she, "there's a bird, a big bird. Dear So-so, can you see him? I can't, because of the sun. What a queer noise he makes. Crake! crake! Oh, I can see him now!
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