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She's such a good hoverer and can be depended on to run from the rain. Now ain't they pretty?" and Mother even looked at Mrs. Peavey with hope for a word of sympathy in her pleasure after a thirty years' experience with her neighbor. "No," answered her friend, "I don't hold with no fancy chickens. Just good dominicks is all I've got any faith in and not much in them.
This was the stool pigeon. We also called him the flutterer or hoverer. "Now give us the flyers." Amos took out two more pigeons, and we tied long and strong strings to their boots. "Now they're ready. But there's hardly enough string for the long flyer. We ought to let him go up at least forty feet." "Cut a little off the string of the short flyer then, and tie it on to the other.
So he began running down the four long flights of stone stairs, past the many doors of the multifarious business premises, and out into the market. A little crowd had gathered, and a large policeman was just rowing into the centre of the interest. Lilly, always a hoverer on the edge of public commotions, hung now hesitating on the outskirts of the crowd.
On the way he told me, with great glee, that his German governess was in bed with an awful sore throat; that he wasn't doing any lessons; that the sheepish hoverer was Milly's young man, and that the silly way they went on was enough to make one sick. When he had fed everything feedable and ridden everything ridable, I drove him to the Wellington Road and deposited him with his parents.
Pull the flyers down and keep hidden. Pull away at the string, Ben, and work the pole, so that the hoverer will keep his wings fluttering. Keep on, Ben. They see him." The pigeons flew toward the flutterer, made a swirl in the air, and began to light on the pigeon pole.
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