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Because of this habit, some people call him the Sea-crow. At all seaside places you find him, and there he fights for his meals with the Herring Gull, the Common Gull, the Kittiwake and others.
When the flying fish is weary of the air, or thinketh himself out of danger, he returneth to the water, where the albicore meeteth him; but sometimes his other enemy, the sea-crow, catcheth him in the air before he falleth.
As Monsieur le Curé plunged in his long rake and drew it back heavy with those excellent bivalves for which the restaurant at The Three Wolves has long been famous, his tall black figure, silhouetted against the distant sea and sky, reminded me of some great sea-crow fishing for its breakfast. To the right of him crouched the restaurant, a low wooden structure, with its back to the breakers.
"I know it," cried the conjurer, "thou art a northern crow, a sea-crow; not a crow of prey, but a crow to be preyed upon; a crow to be plucked, to be flayed, to be basted, to be broiled by Margery upon the gridiron of matrimony."
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