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In one case which I heard of, a screech-owl had thrust its claw into a cavity in a tree, and grasped the head of a red-headed woodpecker; being apparently unable to draw its prey forth, it had thrust its own round head into the hole, and in some way became fixed there, and had thus died with the woodpecker in its talons. The life of birds is beset with dangers and mishaps of which we know little.
"I would rather meet an army of ghosts than see what I have seen!" answered Beulah. "Good Heavens! In the name of wonder, what have you seen, child? A rattlesnake or a screech-owl?" He put his broad palms on his knees, and looked mockingly curious and startled.
I hope it is not a sign of a railroad accident to her, or that the vessel is lost that carried her boy!" "Hush, you superstitious old Hannah! I often hear that screech-owl, and it is only hunting for mice. Mrs. Lindsay will come to-morrow." Her fingers wandered over the keys, and in a sweet, pure, and remarkably clear voice she sang "Oh that I had wings."
In this case the veil was of the East, Eastern; and what was more probable than that the “Mysterious Veiled Lady” was that fascinating Oriental young woman whose attainments in magic made her the dire terror of her enemies, most of whom she changed into pigs, and oxen, and monkeys, and other useful domestic animals; who had transformed her unruly grandfather into a cat of the species called Tom; had metamorphosed her vicious aunt into a screech-owl, and had turned an ungentlemanly second-cousin into a one-eyed donkey.
The good-for-nothing Clemence, who led riots in low dancing establishments, and shrieked like a screech-owl at work, always saddened everyone with her thoughts of death. Gervaise knew her well, and so merely said: "You're never very gay the morning after a night of high living." The truth was that Gervaise did not like this talk about women fighting.
For what good, your highness?" "For what good, Sir Walter? In a month's time you may ask this question of the notary, Jacques Ferrand." About ten o'clock in the evening of the day on which Fleur-de-Marie had been carried off by Screech-owl and the Schoolmaster, a man on horseback arrived at the farm, coming, as he said, on the part of Rudolph, to reassure Mrs.
She taunted the child with being picked up from the streets and sent her out begging, rewarding her with beatings if she did not bring her at least six pence at night, until at last she ran away from Screech-Owl and hid in a wood-yard for the night. Next day she was found, taken before a magistrate and sent to a reformatory as a vagrant until she was sixteen.
"O Lord, O Lord!" ejaculated the terrified comrade of the fallen man, dropping on his knees, "for Heaven's sake, sir, have a care." "What argument canst thou allege, thou screech-owl of the metropolis, that thou shouldst not share the same fate as thy brother owl?" "Thou art an impudent thing to jest at us," said Tarleton; "but thy wit has saved thee; rise."
'Til dawn, 'til dawn!" Then Mister Robert Robin fluttered down into his own big basswood tree, and he and all of his family slept soundly all night, and not even Mister Screech-owl and his whistle disturbed them. It was well towards Fall when Mister and Mrs. Robert Robin's second family were out of the nest, and flying around.
As he spoke the number "ten," once again came the discordant "caw, caw," and instantly the counter opened his mouth and sent forth an admirable imitation of the cry of a screech-owl. Counting once again to ten, he repeated the shriek, then listened. In a moment the first splash of oars reached them.
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