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The impetus which he can give his body enables him to overtake a falling object before it can reach the earth. Perhaps the female osprey was in his way, and hindered him." "But why did he not pick it up in the water?" demanded Francois. "Because it went to the bottom, and he could not reach it that's clear." It was Basil who made answer, and the reason he assigned was the true one.
At present I can only tell you a small part of what happened during the week which the Osprey spent in cruising among the lonely skerries and holmes of Hialtland. More than once our lads had spoken a haaf-boat, and sent messages to Lunda, from whence Fred had taken care to despatch the news, "Osprey spoken. All well," to Boden and Burra Isle.
A few strokes of the eagle's wing brought him near; but the osprey had already heard his scream, and knowing it was no use carrying the fish to his nest, turned away from it, and rose spirally upward, in the hope of escaping in that direction. The eagle followed, beating the air with his broad pinions, as he soared after.
First of all an osprey sounds the prelude, above my head and so close to me that it holds me trembling throughout its long cry. Then other voices answer from the depths of the ruins, voices very diverse, but all sinister. Some are only able to mew on two long-drawn notes: some yelp like jackals round a cemetery, and others again imitate the sound of a steel spring slowly unwinding itself.
It was but wave and sky and the familiar fowl of the lake, as coot, and mallard, and heron, and now and then a swift wood-dove going her ways from shore to shore; two gerfalcons she saw also, an osprey, and a great ern on his errand high up aloft.
Near the mouth of Boden voe, straight before him, keeping watch for him, lay the Laulie, her blue flag with its golden star flying merrily at the mast-head, her white sail spread, her jolly crew all alert and "on the war-path." She was cruising about the entrance to the fiord, with the obvious intention of preventing the Osprey from reaching her own lawful domain.
Rowley and Terence O'Brien! "We will tell you all about it," said the latter, as we warmly shook hands. "But don't you know him?" and he pointed to the fourth horseman. I could scarcely believe my eyes, when my friend, the worthy first mate of the Osprey whom I thought had long been numbered with the dead jumped off his steed and took me by the hand.
I cannot think that she is going to try to go round the southeast point of the island, for if she were she would have laid her head that way before." The Osprey edged out until they opened the line of coast beyond the headland, and then kept her course again. There was a trifle more wind as the sun rose higher, and the yacht went fully a knot faster through the water.
"'We don't know which Osprey you mean. 'Take any one, says the defendant's counsel, reminding me of the defence of a man charged with stealing a duck, and having given seven different accounts as to how he became possessed of it, his counsel was at last asked which he relied on. 'Oh, never mind which, he answered; 'I shall be much obliged if the jury will adopt any one of them.
"I don't think I had better risk it," answered Marcy. "What for?" asked Beardsley. "Well, the money I've got I'm sure of, am I not?" "Course you are. Didn't I say you could have it any minute you had a mind to call for it?" "You did; but suppose I should put it into cotton, as you suggest, and the Osprey should fall into the hands of one of those war ships outside.
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