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As a reward she promised that his family should be rulers over the birds forever, and as a sign that this should be so, she reached forth and touched his black head, and it became snowy white, and all the birds cried 'Long live the king! "Then Old Mother Nature turned to tiny Mr. Hummer and touched his throat, and behold a shining ruby was there, the reward of loyalty, faith, and bravery.
Bruce burst into the office all excitement and half out of breath. "Who's he, she, it?" grinned Barney, slipping his pen behind his ear. "The Major and the airplane! And the plane's a hummer!" It was Barney's turn to get excited now. He jumped from his stool so suddenly that his pen went clattering. "Let's have a look at her." He grabbed his cap and dashed out, Bruce at his heels.
Then he darted out into the air, his wings moving so fast that Peter couldn't see them at all. But if he couldn't see them he could hear them. You see they moved so fast that they made a sound very like the humming of Bumble the Bee. It is because of this that he is called the Hummingbird. A fey' minutes later he was back again and now he was joined by Mrs. Hummer.
"It's sure a hummer," was Daylight's verdict, after due inspection and sampling, as they turned back for the house. The interior was a surprise. The cooking being done in the small, lean-to kitchen, the whole cabin formed a large living room. A great table in the middle was comfortably littered with books and magazines.
"It wasn't so very long before I heard something knocking softly near by, and listening carefully I made up my mind that it must be a boat that was kept in a snug cove perhaps, and yet where it got more or less wash of the sea beyond. "That was just what it turned out to be, Allan, a fair sized motorboat, stoutly built, and yet something of a hummer when it would come to speed.
The talk of the whole game, however, was the playing of Nick Lang, who had left the ice after it was all over; but not before Hugh had congratulated him on his fine work. "How did he ever go through with it all, and never make a nasty break once?" "This must foe one of Nick's special good days, I reckon!" "He's sure a hummer, all right, when he chooses to play straight.
"'It is the mood of the approaching storm, interposed Lee Fu quietly. "A fiercer squall than the last shook the building; it passed in a moment as if dropping us in mid-air. Wilbur was the first to speak. 'Yes, it's going to be a hummer, isn't it? A bad night to be on the water, gentlemen. I wouldn't care to be threshing around outside, now, as poor old Turner was such a short while ago.
Kid, for a tenderfoot, you're a hummer." Get under the table! I couldn't. I would have given half my interest in the hereafter to have been able to crawl under the table or to have run away. But fright held its sway, and locomotion was impossible. For about five minutes the despatcher had been calling me for orders, and in a trembling voice I asked them to let me answer and take the order.
Nice was not the adjective one would apply to it in sincere admiration. Robert Grant Burns himself had mentally called it a hummer. He did not reply to Jean's tentative apology for her own plot-idea. He was thinking about the idea itself. Robert Grant Burns was not what one would call petty. He would not, for instance, stick to his own story if he considered that Jean's was a better one.
"I've told you that already," replied the proprietor. "You bet it's a hummer," cried Boston, reaching for the whiskey bottle under cover of the excitement and enthusiasm. Harlan pushed it away with his foot and raised his clenched fist. "Do you wonder I didn't think of that plan?" he demanded. "Ain't I been too mad to think at all?
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