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Therefore if the fact has any bearing upon the problem of flight, the question of currents may be left out altogether. His facing the wind is, as has been pointed out, only a proof that he is keeping his balance. The kestrel is not the only bird that hovers. The sparrowhawk can.
If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
There's no law against recruiting when you're empty. 'But there is against starving 'em, I said; 'you know yourself there ain't any kai- kai to speak of aboard of us, and there ain't a crumb on the Martha." "We'd all been pretty well on native kai-kai, as it was," said Sparrowhawk.
On May 15, 1815, he was appointed midshipman on board the Prince Regent, 98 guns, the flagship at Spithead, and a training which stood him in good stead in after life was begun under the commander of this vessel, Captain Fowke. A month later he was transferred to the Sparrowhawk, a brig of 18 guns commanded by Captain Baines, then under sailing orders for the Mediterranean.
It was only after Caleb had known me some time, when we were fast friends, that he talked with perfect freedom of these things and told me of his own small, illicit takings without excuse or explanation. One day he saw a sparrowhawk dash down upon a running partridge and struggle with it on the ground.
'I'll tell you one thing right now, says I, 'and that is I'll be blowed if you catch me ashore in the night-time stealing niggers in a place like this." "You didn't say blowed," Sparrowhawk corrected. "You said you'd be damned." "That's what I did, and I meant it, too." "'Nobody asked you to go ashore, says she, quick as lightning," Sparrowhawk grinned. "And she said more.
When I find a dead starling on the downs ranged over by sparrowhawks, it is almost always a young bird a "brown thrush" as it used to be called by the old naturalists. You may know that the slayer was a sparrowhawk by the appearance of the bird, its body untouched, but the flesh picked neatly from the neck and the head gone. That was swallowed whole, after the beak had been cut off.
"And we went and did it," Sparrowhawk said solemnly, and then emitted a series of chuckling noises. "We laid over, starboard tack, and I pinched the Emily against the spit. 'Go about, Captain Munster yells at me; 'go about, or you'll have me aground! He yelled other things, much worse. But I didn't mind.
The trees, however, at the Vallon or Woodlands would be much more likely nesting-places, especially as it might have an opportunity of appropriating a deserted nest of a Magpie or a Wood Pigeon, rather a favourite nesting-place of the Sparrowhawk.
Well, he was cabin-boy twenty years ago on the Scottish Chiefs, and after she was cut off he was a slave there at Poonga-Poonga. And Miss Lackland had discovered the fact. So he was the guide. She gave him half a case of tobacco for that night's work " "And scared him fit to die before she could get him to come along," Sparrowhawk observed. "Well, I never saw anything so black as the mangroves.
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