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And also these: I pray that we may yet foregather once again. That I may tell her all that parting wrought of pain. The antelope was greatly moved at hearing of their comrade's fate, but dissuaded the peahen from her resolve to leave the island.
A huge bunch of white feathers was sticking out from one end of one of these baskets; and as we approached to examine it, out came the live head of a white peacock a Japan peacock and peahen. The gentleman to whom the carriage belonged appeared next, carrying on a perch a fine large macaw. This perch was made to fasten behind the carriage.
So be of good cheer and leave care-taking; for care-taking wasteth the body. Hardly had the peahen done speaking, when the antelope came up to them, thinking to shelter under the shade of the tree, and seeing the two birds, saluted them and said, 'I came to this island to-day, and I have seen none richer in herbage nor more pleasant of habitance. Then he besought them of company and amity, and they, seeing his friendly behaviour to them, welcomed him and gladly accepted his offer.
But the females of various pheasants, which apparently are exposed on their open nests to as much danger as the peahen, have tails of considerable length. The females as well as the males of the Menura superba have long tails, and they build a domed nest, which is a great anomaly in so large a bird. Mr. Ramsay, in 'Proc. Zoolog.
For indeed I come, desiring your friendship. Thereupon the peahen came down to her and said, 'Welcome and fair welcome! No harm shall befall thee: how can the son of Adam come at us and we in this island midmost the sea? From the land he cannot win to us, neither can he come up to us out of the sea. So be of good cheer and tell us what hath betided thee from him.
Quoth the duck, "I fear lest some calamity come upon me by night, for no runaway can rid him of fate by flight." Rejoined the peahen, "Abide with us, and be like unto, us;" and ceased not to persuade her, till she yielded, saying, "O my sister, thou knowest how weak is my resistance; but verily had I not seen thee here, I had not remained."
"The day of parting cut my heart in twain:* In twain may Allah cut the parting-day! And she spake also this couplet, "I pray some day that we reunion gain, * So may I tell him Parting's ugly way." The antelope sorrowed with great sorrow, but dissuaded the peahen from her resolve to remove from the island.
A second peacock and peahen approached, and the four great birds stretched out their necks towards the dying rook a "crowner's quest" upon the unfortunate creature. If any one had been at hand to sketch it, the scene would have been very grotesque, and not without a ludicrous sadness.
But when the peahen heard from the duck this story, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Night,
After he had satisfied his curiosity he hopped off the observation pinnacle and, with his body flattened close to the ground, slipped quietly away. It was an excellent example of the stalker being stalked and had Heller not witnessed the scene we should never have known how the clever old bird had fooled us. The following morning we got a peahen at the same place.
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