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"A delightful spot," observed Mr. Penway, who had followed. "Sandy, but replete with squabs. Why didn't you come earlier? We could have taken you." "May I talk privately with you, Mr. Winfield?" "Sure." Kirk looked at Mr. Penway, who nodded agreeably. "Outside for Robert?" he inquired amiably. "Very well. There is no Buttinsky blood in the Penway family.
Feathers drifted about like snow; there were wild flutterings of doves; and squabs and eggs spattered the lawn. When I saw that nobody was hurt, I joined in the cackles of the prisoners, who were doubled up with joy at the discomfiture of the American teacher.
Buddy closed a meaning eye, and his pleasant features wrinkled into that infectious smile. "I'll tell the world I did! After the whistlin' squabs was asleep in their nests I went out among the whippoorwills an' the bats. Ain't it funny how quick folks can learn to put up with bad grammar when you got a jingle in your jeans?
It is, however, 'pigeon nature' to lay ten or eleven times a year, but hardly natural to presume that each and every egg will ultimately mean a Jumbo squab in the commission man's hands. For one year our squabs averaged us a fraction over 60 cent per pair; say $3.60 has been the returns from each pair of breeders.
From the ranches scattered around we could procure butter and squabs and young vegetables, and the soldiers cultivated great garden patches, and our small dinners and breakfasts live in delightful memory. At the end of two years spent so pleasantly with the people of the First Cavalry, our company was again ordered to Angel Island.
MORAL: It is proper to enjoy the Cheaper Grades of Art, but they should not be formally Indorsed. In a Red School-House back in the Web-Foot District, it was the Custom to have a Debate every Friday Afternoon. The much-mooted Question as to which does the greater Damage, Fire or Water, had been carefully gone over by the Squabs. Also who was the heftier Proposition, Napoleon or Washington?
For this reason the keeper of the pigeons should sweep out the house several times a month, for that which soils it has so great a. value in agriculture that some writers even claim that it is the best of all manures. Furthermore, the keeper in these rounds may tend any pigeon which is ailing, remove any which are dead, and take out such squabs as are fit for market.
Mildred had seen squabs. "I've envied them in a way," said she. "Their parents seem to let them do about as they please." "Their parents don't know or don't care. Sometimes it's one, sometimes the other. They travel in two sets. One is where they meet young fellows of their own class the kind they'll probably marry, unless they happen to draw the capital prize.
I can help you a little more after a while," she finished with enthusiasm. "I'm raising a few squabs out in the back yard, and Meadows is going to buy them as soon as they are big enough to eat." An embarrassment out of all proportion to the act which produced it held him speechless while he gazed at her.
If near water, or hanging over a stream, the place is still more to their liking; and in the morning they may be seen alighting on the bank to drink, before taking to their daily occupation. The great "roosts" and breeding-places are favourite resorts for numerous birds of prey. They are fond of live "squabs," which they drag out of their nests at pleasure.
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