ungainlily

Updated: November 22, 2024

Then they fell apart, and one of them, at any rate the brown one ran away in the shape of a water-vole water-"rat," if you will the heron making spear-lunges at him with his bill as he ungainlily skipped at the other's tail all the way up the bank. The other fighter, the black one, could not rightly be said to have turned into anything very much at least, not anything that any one could swear to.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild