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Updated: June 19, 2025
Does a life so rough and terrible as this give men the consideration that we expect elsewhere and do not find? Ah, that poor shoveller. Isn't it horrible to die so? Did everyone else escape?" "They are ready to start, I think," he suggested, uneasily. "Oh, are they?"
The ground proved tolerably loose, and the pick was but little needed. The field-cornet himself handled one of the spades, Hendrik the other, while Swartboy acted as shoveller, and filled the baskets as fast as Hans and Totty, assisted by Truey and little Jan, could empty them.
I looked seaward, and my eyes rested on a ragged line of silver edging the horizon toward Montauk. "Does look soapy, don't it?" answered the shoveller. "Wonder if Cap'n Joe sees it." Cap'n Joe had seen it fifteen minutes ahead of anybody else, had been watching it to the exclusion of any other object.
Nones ended, Father Shoveller, with many a halt for greeting or for gossip, took the lads up the hill towards the wide fortified space where the old Castle and royal Hall of Henry of Winchester looked down on the city, and after some friendly passages with the warder at the gate, Father Shoveller explained that he was in quest of some one recently come from court, of whom the striplings in his company could make inquiry concerning a kinsman in the household of my Lord Archbishop of York.
Father Shoveller mused a good deal over his pike and its savoury stuffing. He was not by any means an ideal monk, but he was equally far from being a scandal.
Country franklins and yeomen, merchants and men-at-arms, palmers and craftsmen, friars and monks, black, white, and grey, and with almost all, Father Shoveller had greeting or converse to exchange.
We thus see that a member of the duck family, with a beak constructed like that of a common goose and adapted solely for grazing, or even a member with a beak having less well-developed lamellae, might be converted by small changes into a species like the Egyptian goose this into one like the common duck and, lastly, into one like the shoveller, provided with a beak almost exclusively adapted for sifting the water; for this bird could hardly use any part of its beak, except the hooked tip, for seizing or tearing solid food.
"How now, my sons?" said a full cheery voice, and to their joy, they found themselves pushed up against Father Shoveller. "Returned already! Did you get scant welcome at Hyde? Here, come where we can get a free breath, and tell me."
Nothing could be gained there, and while Father Shoveller rubbed his bald head in consideration, Stephen rose to take leave. "Look you here, my fair son," said the monk.
Down on the mud-flats at low tide you see birds called rails, and also "kill-dee" plovers. The shoveller ducks are there, too fishing up with broad, flat beaks little crabs and such creatures as are in the mud, straining out mud and water, but swallowing the rest. All these birds are "waders" and delight in mud and cold salt water. They are usually quiet, or make only strange, shrill cries.
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