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"Well, you can't get there quicker than in my car. She's a hummer. By the way, I forgot to ask. How is your little affair coming along? Everything going all right?" "In a way," said George. He was not equal to confiding his troubles to Reggie. "Of course, your trouble isn't like mine was.
That's who she was. Oh, but she's a hummer! I've met her since. Married, you know. Quick work, that marriage. There was a dam' queer story whispered around about her starting to elope with some other chap, and his going nearly batty because she didn't turn up, and all the time she was wandering around in the desert until somebody picked her up and took care of her.
It was a little hard on those underneath, but they didn't mind it. Behind were Jack and Billy as steerers, and three or four more stood up on the sides and hung on to the others. There were twenty-three in all, every pupil attending the school that day. All was ready. "On account of the road's so smooth, she'll be a hummer," said Billy. "Let her go," ordered Jack. A kick and the jumper was off.
I dunno why we shouldn't believe in spirits and ghosts and dead men come alive. The Bible's full of such, ain't it? "Well, then! And what I tell you is as sure, as sure. I took the Marlin B. out of that harbor, being at the wheel. It was February, and a nasty snow squall come up and smothered us complete and proper. That schooner was a hummer; she sailed just so pretty as this one.
I stayed an hour and a half, and came away no wiser than before. The nest, if nest there was, must be elsewhere, I believed. But where? And what was the object of the male's watch? My curiosity was fully roused. I had never seen or heard of such conduct on the part of any bird, and the next forenoon I spent another hour and a half in the clearing. The hummer was at his post, as he always was.
Often Peter had seen Hummer darting about from flower to flower and holding himself still in mid-air in front of each as he thrust his long bill into the heart of the blossom to get the tiny insects there and the sweet juices he is so fond of. But this was the first time Peter had ever seen him sitting still. He was such a mite of a thing that it was hard to realize that he was a bird.
Yet it was hard to relax. He had social duties, and, besides, he was increasingly something other or more than a parent. Jackson rubbed the dog's head and threw the Frisbee as far as he could. He came over and shook hands. "Congratulations," Joe said. "Thank you. How was your trip?" "Fine, that's some ferry! Fast." "Did you come on the Clipper?" "Yes." "She's a hummer," Jackson said.
So the next day he called all the birds together and asked who would go out into the unknown Great World to look for Old Mother Nature and take a message to her. "No one offered. This one had a family to look after. That one was not feeling well. Another had a pain in his wings. One and all they had an excuse until Hummer, the tiniest of all the birds, was reached.
"Of course," replied Jenny tartly. "He eats nothing but insects, and he catches them flying. Now I must get back to my duties at home." "Just tell me one more thing," cried Johnny Chuck hastily. "Hasn't Sooty any near relatives as most birds have?" "He hasn't any one nearer than some sort of second cousins, Boomer the Nighthawk, Whippoorwill, and Hummer the Hummingbird."
"Oh, 'correct. Well, mother, I guess it must be correct to use slang, 'cause Gladys Mahoney does, and she's a hummer on style." "And I've no doubt her mother reproves her for it, just as I do you. Now go to the schoolroom, it is nearly ten o'clock." "I won't go unless Patricia comes too. If she's going to New York with you, I'm going." "Ethelyn," said Mrs. St. Clair, sternly, "do as I bid you.
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