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But under his distracted heart there was a little chick of frightened joy, like a young cuckoo hatched in a wagtail's nest. After many days, in which no further news had come from Pete, Kate received this brief letter from Philip: "I am coming to see you this evening. Have something of grave importance to tell you."
At last when they tried to sleep, they could not do so on account of Willy Wagtail's singing to his sweetheart, "Sweet pretty creature! Sweet pretty creature!" without stopping for more than five minutes at a time. "I wonder Chip-pi-ti-chip doesn't get tired of that song," said Dot. "She never does," yawned the Kangaroo, "and he never tires of singing it."
I'm so glad that I have the knack Of singing clack! clack! clack! If you wish to be happy, just follow my track, Take this for a motto, this for a code, Sing 'winter, winter, winter is back! Leave care to a toad, and live a la mode! Click-i-ti, click-i-ti-clack! They had no difficulty in following the Wagtail's directions.
He drew himself up and swallowed a long and satisfying draught of air and sunshine. He waved the little wagtail's feather before their eyes. He touched their faces with its tip. "Deep, tender, kind, and beautiful," he elaborated. "Those are the signs signs that he's been along just passed that way. The whole world's looking, and the whole world's full of signs!"
And then he made believe that he was going to get hold of the wagtail's long feathers, but the bird flew off in a fright, thoroughly vexed and disappointed, because the nasty, black-looking, rough toad could beat him in everything he said.
"Are cuckoos' eggs small, uncle?" I said. "Very, my boy, for so large a bird. I have seen them very little larger than the wagtail's with which they were placed. Then as to their crying `cuckoo' when summer draws near. I have heard their notes, and they live in a land of eternal summer. But go on emptying the case."
"I fell down on a slippery snowball, and broke my crutch. Without it I cannot walk, and I want to take these papers to Mrs. Wagtail, the goat lady, to eat." "Ha! If that is all your trouble I can soon fix matters!" cried the jolly old lady. "Here, get up beside me on my Jack horse, and I'll ride you to Mrs. Wagtail's, and then take you home to your hollow-stump bungalow." "Oh, will you?
There, however, he found Paul up to the waist in the sea waiting for him, and the last few yards of the journey were traversed in his friend's arms. By means of this rope was every man of the Water Wagtail's crew saved from a watery grave.
At this announcement you could have jumped down either Wagtail's or Gelid's throat, Wagtail's for choice without touching their teeth.
With these words, Pegtop and the two other blacks, Chin-Chin and Zampa, Wagtail's and Gelid's servants, took a couple of guns apiece, and providing themselves with the necessary ammunition, went aft, and began carefully cleaning and oiling the weapons. I had expected that the wind would blow fresher at daybreak, but I was mistaken.
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