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Updated: May 12, 2025
Thus did she seek to make amends for the speech about the sprouting cabbage-head, which had been weighing heavily upon her conscience. The kittiwake's feather had to weather rain and sunshine for many a year in Con the Quare One's old caubeen; but it is now on a room-wall again, the Kilfoyles' this time. Con brought it to Mrs. Kilfoyle one autumn evening in the year Mrs. O'Driscoll died.
"You'd be better wearin' it, Con, after all," she said, "for the eyes are scorched out of your head under the sun widout e'er a scrap of brim." And as Con took it, he observed with glee that she had fastened into the band a dove-coloured kittiwake's wing-feather, a somewhat cherished possession of her own, which she used to keep over her best picture on the wall.
A red cap appeared over the edge of the cliff, followed immediately by a laughing face framed in a crop of fair curly hair; then a girl scrambled on to firm ground. 'Hulloa, Reggie! are you there already? she said. 'How many have you got? 'Five, said Reggie, displaying the contents of his pockets; 'an auk's, two puffin's, and two kittiwake's. Aren't they prettily marked?
"Hark to her, hark to the Voice of the Beautiful Spring, Calling to come, Calling to come, Over the moon-whitened wave on a kittiwake's wing, Over the foam, Furrow and foam, Leap to her, leap, O my heart, when thou hearest her sing, Home to her, home, Home to her, home." The song ceased. There was an age-long silence. Then out of the darkness from millions of miles away a whisper,
As the foresail went up the mast, a wail of consternation arose from the canoes lying along the dead-line. And as the anchor broke out and the Kittiwake's head paid off in the light breeze, old One-Eye, daring the rifles levelled on him, paddled alongside and made frantic signs of his tribe's willingness to trade pennies for ten sticks. "Boy! a drinking nut," Pankburn called.
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