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Other hours in study of the social and domestic economies of gulls and cormorants. He saw families of awkward little fawn-coloured squawkers force their way out of their shells under his very eves, while indignant mothers told him what they thought of him from a safe distance.
One of his favorite dicta was, "Every child should be taught singing for its health, if for nothing else." And perhaps he was right! At any rate, he made his forty to fifty thousand a year and on days when he had a succession of the noisy, tuneless squawkers, he felt that he more than earned every cent of it.
Chatter of voices, hailings of old friends who signified delighted surprise by profanity and affectionate abuse. Everlasting wailings of penny squawkers! Behold Newry ready for its annual: "See the Conquering Heroes Come!" Uncle Brad Trufant stood on the post-office steps, dim and discontented eyes on the vista of Court Street, framed in the drooping elms.
"The long-necked, long-legged, long-billed Heron family, to which these squawkers belong, contains many marsh-loving birds. They are not exactly what we call shore birds, but live contentedly near any water, where they can wade and splash about pools and shallows for their food. For they eat meat, though they never kill birds, like the cannibals.
Well, I mean to pick up quite a few now and then, unless we get tired of duck as we did of fish," Maurice observed, while watching these bunches of feathered squawkers sailing swiftly past the boat and heading shoreward. "Tired of duck why, you could never get me to say that.
And the impatient Major had linked arms with his hesitating ally and myself, and was turning the corner of the street. "It's an hour's work I have yet wid the squawkers," mildly protested Tommy, still hanging back and stepping a trifle high; "but, as one Irishman would say til another, 'Ye're wrong, but I'm wid ye! "
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