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A humming-bird's nest, composed of cotton interlaced with horse-hair, was shown the author at Buena Esperanza, a plantation near Guines. It was about twice the size of a lady's thimble, and contained two eggs, no larger than common peas.
Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock. She had been fashioned to adorn and delight; to what other end does nature round the rose-leaf and paint the humming-bird's breast?
Black it was, with a spray of damask roses and their leaves, that spring upward from Mrs. Ransome's left ear. "Your father's goin' to church," she said. Ranny sat up among his cushions and said: "Oh, Lord! That Humming-bird's a fair treat." He took it as a supreme instance of his father's humor. But that was not the way Mrs. Ransome meant that he should take it.
Suddenly two fairies rushed into the hall, with a little sound like the noise of a humming-bird's wings when it passes close to you. From the lower end of the hall, where they came in, they went straight through the crowd to where the King and Queen sat. They dropped on their knees before them for an instant, and then rose and spoke to them.
I have just given Jimmy Wigley a quarter for it, and he'd just all but broken his neck to get it. It's a real crow's nest. Corvinus something-else-us, I suppose. Where will you have it? I'm going to nail it up for you myself. Won't it make a nice contrast to the humming-bird's? Over the bed, shall I? But then, if it should drop down on your nose, you know!
Ah! to have a little humming-bird's egg to love, and to feel that it was his very own, was something to Timothy, as it is to all starved human hearts full of love that can find no outlet. Miss Vilda was knitting, and Samantha was shelling peas, on the honeysuckle porch.
A WEDGING MOTION. Thus the bird, by a wedge-like motion, gives a forwardly-propelling action, and as the rear margin has more or less flexure, its action against the air is less during its upward beat, and this also adds to the upward lift of the body of the bird. Evolution of Humming-Bird's Wing.
I have nothing to conceal from you." "I know it!" Jerome burst out, excitedly, apologetically. "I know it now! You're all right, I'm satisfied of that from now on!" She sighed in pure pleasure. And she offered one hand to Jerome. He took it as though it were a humming-bird's egg, and turned almost purple.
"I played with a nice boy over to Boynton's," mused the child. "That was Ivory, their only child. He is a good little fellow, but his mother and father will spoil him with their crazy ways." "I hope nothing will happen to him, for I love him," said the child gravely. "He showed me a humming-bird's nest, the first ever I saw, and the littlest!" "Don't talk about loving him," chided the woman.
What does the humming-bird's nest look like? What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin? What's the difference between the ironweed and the aster?" Ask Peter things like that, and lend him a bit of paper and a pencil, and he literally had the answers at his finger-tips.
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