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Updated: May 14, 2025
And I have neglected to send her to the turret for her punishment. That little creature has a magpie's fondness for plunder. Perhaps she has carried off your box. I will send for her." Marie left the room. Antonia lingered to glance through a small square pane in the door an eye which the commandants of the fort kept on their battlements.
For my part, I think it looks like a magpie's nest!" As a fortunate diversion from the singer and the hat, here comes a cortege, advancing toward us from the end of the street, something remarkably like a funeral.
"The magpie's nest is made with thorns, In leafless tree or hedge; The wild duck and the water hen Build by the water's edge. "Birds build their nests from year to year, According to their kind; Some very neat and beautiful, Some simpler ones we find. "The habits of each little bird, And all its patient skill, Are surely taught by God Himself, And ordered by His will."
Between now and then there lay that package! If it were at Makoff's, at Spider Jack's, if he could find it, get it the Magpie as a temporary custodian of the estate's money would at least preclude its loss by flight if the Crime Club took alarm too quickly. Larry the Bat's eyes, under half-closed lids, rested musingly on the Magpie's face. The Magpie would not get very far away with it!
At this sudden noise from the rose-bush Mother Magpie's nerves were so shocked that she dropped the diamond helter-skelter into the hole. And in a moment she fell in after it, out of sight. She hoped that no one had seen her, but little Whitebird knew the place. He hopped after her and, perching on the edge of the hole, peered down into the hollow tree.
There is a sawmill near our house on the shore and it whirrs and saws all day long." "There were sawmills all along the coast," said Gerda. "Birger and I began to count them, and then there were so many other things to see that we forgot to count." Karen stooped down to open the door of the magpie's cage, and he hopped out and began picking up the grain which she held in her hand for him.
The giant's daughter, in a West Highland tale, makes a ladder with her fingers for her lover to climb a tree to fetch a magpie's eggs; and, in the hurry, she leaves her little finger at the top.
They have also a singular mode of airing their Linen and Beds, by means of what they call a Trokenkorb, or Fire-basket, which is of the size and shape of a Magpie's Cage, and within it is a pan filled with burning Turf, and the Linen is spread over the Wicker-frame; or, to air the Bed, the whole Machine is placed between the Sheets.
On the top of the fir tree is a magpie's nest, and in the nest are five eggs. Thou wilt bring me those eggs for breakfast, and if one is cracked or broken, thy blood shall pay for it. Before it was light next day, the king's son jumped out of bed and ran down to the loch.
One morning the fox as usual was going his rounds when he noticed a tall, slender tree, with a magpie's nest in one of the top branches. Now the fox was particularly fond of young magpies, and he set about making a plan by which he could have one for dinner. At last he hit upon something which he thought would do, and accordingly he sat down near the tree and began to stare hard at it.
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