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Ward Fowler records a case in which a pair of Crows attacked a small rookery, ransacked the nests, and destroyed the eggs, with the result that not a single pair of Rooks was left in the settlement. Each Rook must therefore secure a position within the precincts of the community if it is to have a chance of success in the attainment of reproduction.
Alban looked at her. "Well," said Mrs. Rook, "am I to have no answer? Ah, you want leading. So like a man again! Is she pretty?" Still examining the housekeeper with mingled feelings of interest and distrust, Alban answered ungraciously: "Yes." "Good-tempered?" Alban again said "Yes." "So much about herself," Mrs. Rook remarked. "About her family now?"
One hope was all she could feel, one word was all she could say, after that second assertion of Mirabel's guilt. Indicating Mrs. Rook by a glance at the bed, she whispered the word: "Mad?" Flippant and familiar, the doctor imitated her; he too looked at the bed. "No more mad than you are, miss.
This advice made some impression upon Kapchack, notwithstanding that he was much prejudiced against the fox, for it was evidently founded upon facts, and the fox was known to have had great experience. Ki Ki shouted applaudingly; the rook said he for one could not shut himself up while the country was ravaged; and the jay said the ladies would despise them.
Anon they turn into narrower and steeper staircases, and the night-air begins to blow upon them, and the chirp of some startled jackdaw or frightened rook precedes the heavy beating of wings in a confined space, and the beating down of dust and straws upon their heads.
And even as he did reach it, a hand was on his throat, almost choking him, and a tremendous voice cried, "You young poacher, you sha'n't get off that way! I'll have you up to the Bench, that I will, for shooting the poor old turkey-cock before my very eyes." "Oh! don't, don't! I didn't mean it," cried Hal, turning in the terrible grip; "I thought it was only a rook!" "A rook, I dare say!
Then the stubble must be broken up by the plough, and again there is a fresh helping for them. Brown partridge, and black rook, and yellowhammer, all hues and degrees, come to the wheat-field. Every day something new is introduced into farming, and yet the old things are not driven out.
Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist. Your uncle Silas knowed a family in Baton Rouge that knowed his people very well. Yes, I remember now, he DID die. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him. But it didn't save him.
"Oh, pray don't," said the Blackbird, as he opened out his wings as if for flight; "you make me feel quite nervous." The Rook gave a caw which he intended to be a sympathetic one, but there was a little falter in it, which, had he been a human being instead of a bird, might have been mistaken for a smothered laugh. The birds now rose on the wing, and together flew homewards.
I tried reading them downward, across, upward and diagonally, in the direction of the moves of different chess pieces king, queen, rook and bishop. Nothing came of that, whatever I did; the thing was as unreadable as ever.
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