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Most of them were mallards, and from many places in the marsh they could hear the quacking and squawking of yet other ducks hidden in the high grass. "We haven't any waders," said Alex, "and I think you'll find the water pretty cold, but you'll soon get used it to. Come ahead, then."
The steeply-terraced kitchen gardens, neat box edgings, wide flower borders in which a few clumps of chrysanthemum and Michaelmas daisy still resisted the frost, ranged down to greenish brown ponds in the valley bottom spotted with busy, quacking companies of white ducks. Beyond was an ascending slope of thick wood, the topmost trees of which showed bare against the sky line.
Evidently he was on good terms with hens at home, for he made up to these eagerly as if to tell them his troubles; but the hens knew not ducks; they withdrew suspiciously, then assumed a threatening attitude, till one old "dominic" put up her feathers and charged upon him viciously. Again he tried to make up to them, quacking softly, and again he was repulsed.
They imitated with surprising accuracy the noises of the various domesticated animals they had seen at the settlement; and it was amusing to hear the crowing of the cock, the cackling of the hens, the quacking of ducks, grunting of pigs, mewing of the cat, etc. evident proofs that these natives had been in Victoria.
On foggy nights, too, I can hear steam-sirens on the river. Do you know when the ducks start quacking in St. James's Park?" he asked with a laugh. "At two o'clock to the minute." Sutch listened to the story without an interruption. But halfway through the narrative he changed his attitude, and in a significant way.
In a minute or so they had reached the water-side, and stopped to listen; but they could hear nothing but the gabbling and quacking of the water-fowl. "Too late too late!" groaned Frank. "Which way shall we go?" "Left," said Andrew shortly. "Sure to go farther away." They started again, running now on the grass, and as they went on step for step: "Mayn't have begun yet," panted Andrew.
'I want you to get into the nest, the bird called, speaking as slowly and distinctly as possible, 'and then you can drift ashore, but I am too tired to bring it any nearer so you must try to swim to it. 'What are you quacking about? Peter answered. 'Why don't you let the nest drift as usual? 'I want you the bird said, and repeated it all over. Then Peter tried slow and distinct.
Then, as the rainy season began, I ceased fishing and took to the gun, for now three or four kinds of duck made their appearance, and one moonlight night an immense number alighted in the creek just below the hut, and kept up an incessant gabble and quacking till sunrise.
On reaching her mate all this caution would be laid aside, and the two would set up an animated and confidential quacking. They would sometimes sail around each other slowly in circles, with much arching of necks and quaint stiff bowing of heads; and sometimes they would chase each other in scurrying, napping rushes along the bright surface of the water.
'Ay, that's the way, Sir, fellows quacking themselves and one another; when they get frightened, and with good reason, come to us and expect miracles; but as in this case, the quantity was not very much, 'tis not, you see, overpowering, and he may do if he takes what I'll send him. Puddock was already at his bedside, shaking his hand hysterically, and tumbling his words out one over the other
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