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"I. The Birds that Sing. "II. The Birds that Croak and Call. "III. The Birds that are Cannibals. "IV. The Birds that Coo and Scratch. "V. The Birds that Wade and Paddle. "VI. The Birds that Swim and Dive." Squeak, squeak, went three pencils, two going fast and one toiling along as if it was lame and needed sharpening.
There before her stood the grindstone, looking exactly the same as it had always done. The girl rose, walked over to it, and put her foot on the treadle. "Squeak! squeak!" Yes, that was exactly the noise she had heard in the night, coupled with the grate of the stone against the hard metal. She felt more than ever sure that she had not been mistaken.
It won't matter whether they be short or tall; whether the voice squeak like a marionette or rumble like a town bull's; it won't matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians they will be the Germans or Brazilians who take a cold bath every morning and who move, roughly speaking, in diplomatic circles.
The meaning of all this is that the ferret is in the hole and the rats have begun to squeak already. Soon they will come hopping out of St. John's Wood Avenue, so make ready your sticks and stones. In April 1892 I wrote: 'The position of the Academy is as impregnable as Gibraltar.
And I have had more than one narrow squeak for it in the neighbourhood of the "still vexed Bermoothes," besides various other small affairs, written in this Boke; but the devil such another tumblefication had I ever experienced not as to danger, for there was none except to our spars and rigging, but as to discomfort as I did in that short, cross, splashing, and boiling sea, off Morant Point.
It was made from the hollow bone of a turkey's wing. I called it a turkey call. By holding the end of my hand and sucking it right, it would make a noise, or squeak, very similar to the turkey's voice.
I thought I'd come and live with Kate till the year was up, and then get a divorce, and go back home to work. My father left me enough to squeak along on, you see, if I lived in the country. Aunt Ida that's Frank's mother paid me a salary for staying with her and looking after her house and her rents and things. And then, when you followed me out here, I was furious! Just simply furious!"
"I don't admit that you have any right to question me," said Doggie, lighting a cigarette. "Peggy has given it to me. We had a heart to heart talk this morning, I assure you. She called me a swaggering, hectoring barbarian. So I told her what I'd do. I said I'd come here and squeak like a little mouse and eat out of your hand.
Only the pressing need of discovering the full extent of the other's information kept Vincent from some outburst. 'What do you know? he demanded. 'Well, said Caffyn, 'I know that you are the real pig, so to speak, and that miserable humbug Ashburn's only the squeak. 'You mean you think you know that what is your authority?
Nosey came out and apologised for the dog, and brought Nelson in to have some supper; and Nelson stayed till about twelve; but devil a squeak of the fiddle, or a line of a song, could he get out of Alf. But, as the boss says, Alf's only mad enough to know the difference between an eagle-hawk and a saw foolish expression, it seems to me. Best boundary man on the station, Alf is.
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