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Updated: May 10, 2025
They grew up into fat and respectable ducks five white ones and three gray ones waddling about, very content, though they never saw water, except the tank which was placed for them to paddle in. They lived a lazy, peaceful, pleasant life for a long time, and were at last killed and eaten with green peas, one after the other, to the family's great satisfaction, if not to their own.
Bowler senior, with his capacious waistcoat, &c., waddling after a ball, would present an absurd object, whereas it does the eyes good to see Bowler junior scouring the plain a young exemplar of joyful health, vigor, activity.
It was necessary, however, first to allow them to land, for with their close, short hair, and their fusiform conformation, being excellent swimmers, it is difficult to catch them in the sea, while on land their short, webbed feet prevent their having more than a slow, waddling movement.
She ran into the house and all the way up the two steep flights of stairs, laughing like a dozen peals of fairy bells. At the head of the stairs she began to sing, for she looked back and saw babu Sita Ram waddling wheezily up-stairs after Ranjoor Singh and the German. "The gods surely love Yasmini!" she told her maids. "Catch me that babu and bottle him!
Tisbett!" she screamed, running, if the speed she now exercised could be called by that name, for it was more like waddling, out to the porch. "He isn't there," gasped David, following her. "Oh, dear Mrs. Green, please hurry and find him," he implored. "I don't know no more'n the dead where he is, child," said Mrs.
Evidently the ducks decided to hold a consultation and send delegates to see what on earth prevented their friend from caring for them in person since they could hear her voice. For as I looked across the lawn towards the door, imagine my surprise on catching sight of some thirty or forty Rouenese ducks of all sizes waddling up the steps and into the vestibule. "Bour-ree, bouree!"
These men could understand the advance of the single tractor no more than could the Germans. "The fools!" shouted one man. "They'll be killed sure; and what good can they do single-handed against the whole German army?" But the tank driven by Hal took no cognizance of the remarks hurled after it; nor did it swerve from its purpose of waddling straight up to the foe.
The heavy brown hand returned to the spot it had sought soon after the babu's entrance, within the folds of silk across his bosom, and groped therein for an instant. "Even here," he iterated with a maddening manner of supreme self-complacency, producing the bronze box and waddling over to drop it into Rutton's hand. "My lord is satisfied?" he gurgled maliciously.
Viney accompanied them to the boat, waddling across the field, his hands in the armholes of his vest. He said little, but as he shoved them off in their tender, he observed: "It's the sort of day you could get lost in mighty easy." "Oh," Falkner called back cheerily, "I guess I know my way." "Well, I guess you do!"
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