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"The poor angel," said Antoinette. "But will she not join Monsieur at dinner?" "I think not," said I, dryly. "But the young ducklings that are roasting for the dinner of Monsieur?" "If they were not roasting they might be growing up into ducks," said I. "Oh, la, la!" murmured Antoinette, below her breath.
Paul's Churchyard, to Leadenhall, and the markets where turkeys, geese, ducklings, and chickens turkeys predominant, however hang in rows of a thousand at a time. "I must buy you something," said Lewisham, resuming a topic. "No, no," said Ethel, with her eye down a vista of innumerable birds. "But I must," said Lewisham. "You had better choose it, or I shall get something wrong."
Its services as a "scavenger" procure for it an immunity from persecution; and it is not only tolerated by the people, but encouraged, in its advances towards fellowship with them; notwithstanding that at times it becomes rather troublesome in its attentions to the young ducklings, chicklings, and other denizens of the farmyard.
The Fuegians appear to be in this respect in an intermediate condition, for when the surgeon on board the "Beagle" shot some young ducklings as specimens, York Minster declared in the most solemn manner, "Oh, Mr. Bynoe, much rain, much snow, blow much"; and this was evidently a retributive punishment for wasting human food.
How much the poorer should we be, mentally, without our early prophecy of the "ugly ducklings" we are to meet later in life! those awkward offspring of our little human duckyard who are mostly well kicked and buffeted about, for that very length of limb and breadth of back which needs must be, to support swan's wings.
But to Esther, Leonard James's conversation was full of interest. The two ugly ducklings of the back-pond had become to all appearance swans of the ornamental water, and it was natural that they should gabble of auld lang syne and the devious routes by which they had come together again. "You see, I'm like you, Esther," explained the young man.
And she wildly rushed out, saying over her shoulder, "By und by we zee for zat maid, und about zat udder lady, by und by also," and so departed at a run with a great rattling of starch and fluttering of cap ribbons; for Jules, the head cook, already in the first stages of delirium tremens, was making himself interesting to the guests by trying to jump into the fountain basin to save the lives of the tiny ducklings, who were happily swimming there, and Madame F was sorely needed.
By-and-by the ducklings, seeing that the heron did not move, came nearer to him; and at last a little white fly went sailing along under his beak, and two ducklings set off on a race over the surface of the pond to see which would get the little white fly; and so busy were they that they forgot all about the great heron, and went up close to him, splashing him all over with the bright sparkling water.
To right and left the long blue curve of the Solent lapped in a fringe of foam upon the yellow beach. Some way out from the town a line of pessoners, creyers, and other small craft were rolling lazily on the gentle swell. Further out still lay a great merchant-ship, high ended, deep waisted, painted of a canary yellow, and towering above the fishing-boats like a swan among ducklings. "By St.
She pressed a cool face against each side her wet and burning countenance, gave kisses, and upon the added stress of this new emotion choked: "Good-bye, little ducklings!" "Oh, darling, darling Miss Humf'ay, we will be good if you'll stay!" They felt this was the desperate threat that so often followed their misdemeanours put into action. She held them, hugging them. "It isn't that.
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