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Who flings his red cap At the owlets that flap Their white wings in his face as he sits there alone?" Hulda, upon hearing this, arose in great haste and dressed herself; then she went to her father and mother, and entreated that they would come with her to the old ruin. It was now broad day, so they all three set out together.
This mixture is curiously like that in the witches' caldron in Macbeth, which, among other equally toothsome matters, contained frogs' toes, bats' wool, lizards' legs, owlets' wings, wolfs' teeth, witches' mummy, Jew's liver, tigers' bowels, and lastly, as a sort of thickening to the gravy, baboon's blood.
Jack Frost heard him and came racing up with his nippers, but when he saw it was Claus he laughed and turned away again. The mother owls heard him as he passed near a wood and stuck their heads out of the hollow places in the tree-trunks; but when they saw who it was they whispered to the owlets nestling near them that it was only Santa Claus carrying toys to the children.
When he awoke it was dark. Fire-flies flashed about him brilliantly; stars beamed so brightly that they seemed double, half above in the sky, and half below in the water. From some overhanging boughs came a dismal hooting. "'Hush! cried Arthur, impatiently. 'Why do you want to spoil the night with such wailing? "'I have lost three lovely little owlets, was the response.
While thus speaking, the young people were already playfully struggling which should first enter the oak. Two got precedence, and went in and out, one after the other. Gabriel breathed hard. "The blind owlets!" thought he; "and I put the letter where a mole would have seen it!"
"I have only two shillings, Master Rupert. I got that yesterday in Derby for a nest of young owlets I found in the copse." Rupert reined up his horse in dismay. "Two shillings between us, Hugh! And it is 126 miles to London. What are we to do?" Hugh thought a moment. "We can't go on with that, sir. Do you take these two shillings and ride on to the Red Dragon. You will be outside the county there.
So saying, they raised the fallen watchman, who, after three or four grunts, began slowly to recover himself. "Are you dead, Dick?" said the owl with seven owlets. "I think I am," answered the other, groaning. "Are you able to drink a pot of ale, Dick?" cried the tall stranger. "I think I am," reiterated the dead man, very lack-a-daisically.
But she will wander at sundown through the exquisite woods of Eastwell, and will watch the owlets in their downy nest or the nightingale silhouetted against the fading sky. Then her constitutional depression passes, and she is able once more to be happy: Our sighs are then but vernal air, But April-drops our tears, as she says in delicious numbers that might be Wordsworth's own.
Squirrels from their nests scolded at our intrusion most vehemently; an owl flew up with such a noisy snapping and chattering that our attention was drawn to the point from which she rose, and there, perched upon a couple of rotten stumps a few feet apart, were two half-fledged owlets, passive, immovable, which allowed themselves to be photographed and even handled without any indication of life except in their wondering eyes and the circumrotary heads that contained them.
They at once found the retreat a perfect windbreak, and became comfortable all hugging together "like a nestful of owlets," Helen said, and all declared themselves as "warm as toast." But the wind howled mournfully through the wood, and the snow sifted down with a strange, mysterious "hush hush hus-s-sh" that made them feel creepy.
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