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During one season he kept an account, and found that he had shot thirty-five birds from the same nest; these consisted of both males and females, but in what proportion he could not say: nevertheless, after all this destruction, a brood was reared. On the peregrine falcon, see Thompson, 'Nat. Hist. of Ireland: Birds, vol. i. 1849, p. 39. On owls, sparrows, and partridges, see White, 'Nat.
Teddy pulled up a window shade and studied the landscape for several minutes. "Curious, isn't it?" he mumbled. "Yes." "I might make a guess where they went, Phil." "You might guess?" "That's what I said." "Where do you think they have gone?" "If I were to make a long-range guess, I should say that perhaps the cars of the opposition were sidetracked at Owls' Valley." "Where is that?
We began to live in plenty now and the twittering owls were permitted to go unmolested. Lake Michikamats is irregular in shape, about twenty miles long, and, exclusive of its arms, from two to six miles wide. The surrounding country is flat and marshy, with some low, barren hills on the westward side of the lake.
From these trees came the far-away, melancholy cooing of mourning doves, and little owls perched in them and called tremulously at night.
"In that respect the guide shows himself to be a wise man," returned MacSweenie sententiously. "It iss only geese that blab out all they think to everybody that asks them questions." "Ay, that is true," rejoined Mowat, with a cynical smile, "an' some geese manage, by sayin' nothin' at all to anybody, and lookin' like owls, to pass themselves off as wise men for a time."
It needed no great help of imagination to read the story here of a starving lynx, too famished to remember caution, and of a dinner that cost a life. Once also I saw a curious bit of animal education in connection with Unk Wunk. Two young owls had begun hunting, under direction of the mother bird, along the foot of a ridge in the early twilight.
There's the clock; it's always awake; but it can't tell you the time till you go and ask it. I think it might be made to wind up a string that should pull me when the right time came; but I don't think I could teach it. And when it came to the pull, the pull might stop the clock, and what would papa say then? They tell me the owls are up all night, but they're no good, I'm certain.
He was so old that he was almost blind, and therefore he never hunted as other owls hunted. He did not hide himself in the black cover of spruce and balsam tops, or float softly through the night, ready in an instant to swoop down upon his prey. His eyesight was so poor that from a spruce top he could not have seen a rabbit at all, and he might have mistaken a fox for a mouse.
By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the neighboring woods into the barn of one of the townsfolk in the night-time, and when day broke did not dare to venture forth again from her retreat, for fear of the other birds, which raised a terrible outcry whenever she appeared.
'My quaint Ariel, said Prospero to the little sprite when he made him free, 'I shall miss you; yet you shall have your freedom. 'Thank you, my dear master, said Ariel; 'but give me leave to attend your ship home with prosperous gales, before you bid farewell to the assistance of your faithful spirit; and then, master, when I am free, how merrily I shall live! Here Ariel sung this pretty song: Where the bee sucks there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I crouch when owls do cry.
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