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Updated: May 14, 2025
Years passed, and still it was the same, and thus it was, that when Bevis and his papa drove up, Bevis was so interested and so inquisitive about the knocker, which had fallen from the front door. One thing, and one place only, received the owner's care, and that was the orchard, the arbour, the magpie's nest, and the footpath that led to the orchard gate.
He was examining the wound, searching for the weapon it must have been a blunt instrument of some sort with which the blow, or blows, had been struck. There was nothing. The Magpie lay there dead. That was all. Mechanically Jimmie Dale replaced the bed in its original position over the murdered man, and stood staring down again at the gray seal on the Magpie's boot.
"I've found it; I declare I've found it; the identical hole in the trunk where I used to put all my treasures my 'magpie's nest, as they called it, where I hid every thing I could find. What a mischievous young scamp I was!" "Very," said Miss Williams, affectionately, laying a gentle hand on his curls "pretty" still, though cropped down to the frightful modern fashion.
All these thoughts, vivid as lightning, and as rapid, darted through poor Fortune's brain during the few moments that she stood with her hand on David's shoulder, while he drew from his magpie's nest a heterogeneous mass of rubbish pebbles, snail shells, bits of glass and china, fragments even of broken toys. "Just look there. What ghosts of my childhood, as people would say!
A few locks of hair, mingled white and black, like a magpie's wing, had strayed from beneath the Colonel's cap; while thick, fair curls clustered about the magistrate's temples.
You know pretty well what I've got already. 'Right, I will. 'Magpie's what I want particularly. Where are you going, by the way? 'Thought of having a shot at old Venner's woods. I'm after a water-wagtail myself. Ought to be one or two in the Dingle. 'Heaps, probably. But I should advise you to look out, you know. Venner's awfully down on trespassing. 'Yes, the bounder.
Now she could not help likening her mother to the bird, although the thought shocked her. There was the same sly angle of countenance, a similar furtiveness of purpose; the very expression of Mrs. Knight's keen, hard eyes was like nothing so much as that of the magpie's. Displeased at her own irritation, Lorelei made the excuse of a shopping trip to escape from the house.
Specks of brilliant scarlet dot the grass like some bright berries blown from the bushes; but on stooping to pick them, they are found to be the heads of a fungus. Near by lies a black magpie's feather, spotted with round dots of white.
What would become of the human residents if that animal deposit were left for the fierce sun to dispose of, may perhaps be imagined. The gull should, indeed, be a sacred bird in Utah. What drew us first to the pasture which we came to at last was our search for a magpie's nest.
"Just gimme de price of one, Slimmy just one." "Coke!" exploded the Magpie. "An' get soaked to de eyes not by a damn sight!" "No! Honest to Gawd, no, Slimmy just one!" pleaded Larry the Bat. "Nix!" said the Magpie shortly. Larry the Bat thrust out a hand before the Magpie's eyes that shook tremulously. "I got to have it!" he declared, with sudden fierceness. "I GOT to see! Look at me!
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