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I dressed l'Encuerado's hurts, and we were about to continue our journey. "I say," said Lucien, archly, just as the Indian was hoisting his basket on to his back; "how would it have been if I had been perched on it?" "Then I should not have fallen," replied l'Encuerado, with the utmost gravity.
The effect must have been very overwhelming; for Madame the Professoress, as the Germans say, rose hurriedly as if to go, making me a slight bow which seemed to say: "Adorable! " Her husband stopped her, saying: "Don't go, my child, this is one of my pupils." The young woman bent her head towards the scholar as a bird perched on a bough stretches its neck to pick up a seed.
If, however, an oriole was found by one of the old mocking-birds perched on the edge of the nest, he was driven away with a piece of mocking-bird mind on the subject of meddlers. Likewise they frequently paid visits to a nuthatch colony at the top of a tall pine-tree. Whether more aggressive among these smaller birds, or not, could not be seen.
None of our guests was in the least ill at ease; in fact, the young ladies were quite coy and flirtatious. We had a great many jokes. Each of the little ladies received a handful of prevailing beads. M'booley smiled benignly at these delightful femininities. After a time he led us to the edge of the hill and showed us his houses across the cation, perched on a flat about halfway up the wall.
In one little hollow in the woods was a spot they called their 'house, where they spent long days playing all sorts of lovely games, and very often, when their mother or Lydia wanted to have a free day, they had their dinner and tea there too. Making for this place now, Esther came upon Penelope perched in the forked trunk of an old tree, a book in her hand.
Throughout that district, where the fields are small, and the trees big and near together, he has the cirl-bunting's habit of perching to sing on the tops of high hedgerow elms and oaks. By and by I had a better bird to listen to a redstart. A female flew down within fifteen yards of me; her mate followed and perched on a dry twig, where he remained a long time for so shy and restless a creature.
The snow lay deep and unbroken on the road, and it would have been a dangerous walk. "Besides, I could not tell her truly that his courage was good poor soul! and without that I might as well stay at home." That worse news awaited them Stephen himself did not know as yet. Perched on a hill-top overlooking the village of Littleton, stood the humble log-house in which the Morelys had taken refuge.
To do this he dropped the pie pans he held in the other paw and they fell to the floor with a crash. "Land goodness, he certainly makes noise enough!" said one of the women in the store, covering her ears with her hands. Perched above the heads of the crowd, and paying no attention to the calls of Jed Winkler, the monkey began turning the egg beater. He seemed to like that most of all.
Thousands of sea birds wheeled in the eddies of the wind, thousands of ravens perched on the slopes. With our glasses we could make out the heads of seals fishing outside the surf, and a ragged belt of kelp. When within a mile we put the helm up, and ran for the west end. A bold point we avoided far out, lest there should be outlying ledges.
There are remains of two villages connected with the cavate lodges just described, perched on the points of the promontories which form the mouths of the two canyons before mentioned. The location of these ruins is shown in plate XXV. The one on the southern promontory is of greater extent than that on the northern point, and both are now much broken down, no standing wall remaining.
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