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Of course, our secretary is in to stay; that's part of his pay for the land he gives; but except as to him, gentlemen, there'll have to be a new slate. How's that, Mr. President?" "Certainly; we're all pro tern, except Mr. March and Colonel Ravenel."
It generally chooses the side of a low bank, but sometimes penetrates the mud walls round the houses, through which it works its way, frequently very much to its disappointment coming out unexpectedly on the opposite side. It is about the size of a tern, with short legs, webbed feet, and extremely long, pointed wings.
And the little island sinks back to its quiet and its calm. The lagoon lies placid like a mirror. The slow sea breaks eternally on the outer reef. The white clouds sail over day by day. The seabirds come back to their haunts, the fierce man-of-war birds, the gentle, soft-eyed tern. But we, whose island home was thus invaded are we the same? Was this a dream?
It is not a very rare experience for the trout-fisherman to hook a swallow which may happen to dash by at the moment of casting; but a much more unusual occurrence was that of a tern, on a well-known pool of the Spey, actually mistaking a salmon-fly for a small fish and swooping on it, only to get firmly hooked by the bill.
Its great power of flight had made it bold and venturesome, and had carried it so far out of its range that it starved to death before it could return. The sooty tern is sometimes called the sea-swallow on account of its form and the power of flight. It will fly nearly all day at sea, picking up food from the surface of the water.
He felt the sun very hot upon his shoulders, and he heard the harsh, insistent jarring of a tern that hovered and circled with forked tail and sharp white wings in the sunlight just above their heads; but all the time he stood staring into the good old gentleman's face. It was Parson Jones who first spoke. "But what do all these figures mean?"
Until 1909, the inhabitants consisted of the Laysan albatross, black-footed albatross, sooty tern, gray-backed tern, noddy tern, Hawaiian tern, white tern, Bonin petrel, two shearwaters, the red-tailed tropic bird, two boobies and the man-of-war bird. Laysan Island is two miles long by one and one-half miles broad, and at times it has been literally covered with birds.
I replied truthfully that I considered it excellent in every way; and we then launched into a discussion of minor details, with which I need not weary the reader, at the end of which I went aboard the Tern and paid off her crew, preparatory to her being turned over to the shipwrights, along with her prize.
The big house, well furnished, was not inhabited by the chief's family. It was their monument of success. They slept in one of several houses they had near by, and their elegant dishes were unused except for white guests. On the beach at the river's mouth the heron sat or stalked solemnly, and the tern flew about the reef. The white iitae lived about the cocoanut-trees.
Crested Tern STERNA BERGII. Brown-winged Tern STERNA ANAESTHETA. Sooty Tern STERNA FULIGINOSA. White-shafted Ternlet STERNA SINENSIS. Black-naped Tern STERNA MELANAUCHEN. Noddy ANOUS STOLIDUS. White-capped Noddy MICRANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS. White Ibis IBIS MOLUCCA. Straw-necked Ibis CARPHIBIS SPINICOLLIS.
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