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Updated: May 11, 2025
There are so many jackdaws about the suburbs that, when a flock of rooks passes over, the caw-cawing is quite equalled by the jack-jucking. The daws are easily known by their lesser size and by their flight, for they use their wings three times to the rook's once.
No doubt there are experts to whom a wood-pigeon's nest is something apart and distinct from the nest of the magpie, but to your unsophisticated amateur a nest that is large may be anything rook's, magpie's, pigeon's, or great auk's. To such an one the only true test lies in the eggs. Solvitur ambulando.
The Norwegian examined these marks with much minuteness; and when he had satisfied himself that they were the hoof-prints of the rein-deer, and not of the smaller cows of the country, he thrust his hand into the salt-bag that was still suspended from his left side, like a good-sized rook's nest, and vociferated, "Salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! salt! salt!"
Three of the guests in the public room corroborated Mrs. Rook's evidence. They were respectable persons, well and widely known in that part of Hampshire. Besides these, there were two strangers staying in the house. They referred the coroner to their employers eminent manufacturers at Sheffield and Wolverhampton whose testimony spoke for itself.
"Faster!" came the word of command, and Rostov felt Rook's flanks drooping as he broke into a gallop. Rostov anticipated his horse's movements and became more and more elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him.
David was shying stones at a rook's nest opposite, the clatter of the outraged colony to which it belonged sounding as music in his ears. They stared when they saw Reuben cross the road, sit down on a stone beside David, and take out his pipe.
I named this island Sir George Rook's Island. We also saw some other islands to the westward; which may be better seen in my chart of these lands than here described.
All the morning calls I ever saw were formal, every one stiff, and speaking by rote, or talking politics. How glad I used to be to get on horseback again! But to see these why, it is like the shepherd's glimpse at the pixies! as one reads a new book, or watches what one only half understands a rook's parliament, or a gathering of sea-fowl on the Shag Rock. 'A rook's parliament?
This, on the face of it, looks like a reasonable explanation, but it should be borne in mind that not only do some individual rooks retain through life the feathers normally missing, but that several of the rook's cousins dip into Nature's larder in the same fashion without suffering any such loss.
Now it came to pass that the Prince of Felicitas, returning from his journey, rode once more on his amber-coloured steed down the Vita Publica. The night was dark as a rook's wing, but far away down the street burned a little light, like a red star truant from heaven. The Prince riding by descried it for a lanthorn, with an old man sleeping beside it. "How is this, Friend?" said the Prince.
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