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Updated: October 2, 2026
A favourite climbing tree The desire to fly Soaring birds A peregrine falcon The dovecote and pigeon-pies The falcon's depredations A splendid aerial feat A secret enemy of the dovecote A short-eared owl in a loft My father and birds A strange flower The owls' nesting-place Great owl visitations.
As I have mentioned our famous pigeon-pies, when describing the dovecote, I may as well conclude this chapter with a fuller account of our way of living as to food, a fascinating subject to most persons.
Weston as to pigeon-pies and cold lamb, when a lame carriage-horse threw every thing into sad uncertainty. It might be weeks, it might be only a few days, before the horse were useable; but no preparations could be ventured on, and it was all melancholy stagnation. Mrs. Elton's resources were inadequate to such an attack. "Is not this most vexatious, Knightley?" she cried.