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"A crane!" said Mrs. Rossitur, to whose imagination the word suggested nothing but a large water-bird with a long neck. "Ay!" said the doctor. "But it's just as well. You wont want hanging lamps there and candelabra would hardly be in place either, to hold tallow candles." "Tallow candles!" exclaimed Mrs. Rossitur. Her husband winced, but said nothing.
In the summer the whole family used often to sit on the steps of the old portico, with the flower-garden in front, and with the steep wooded bank opposite the house reflected in the lake, with here and there a fish rising or a water-bird paddling about. Nothing has left a more vivid picture on my mind than these evenings at Maer.
"What was that?" she asked with a start, for a wild shrill cry rang suddenly out of the stillness, and the hillside returned the sound in a doleful wailing before it died away. "Only a loon, a water-bird!" I said, though the cry had also startled me. Grace shivered as she answered: "I have never heard it before, and it sounded so unearthly almost like a warning of some evil.
It was all concentrated in the furious hostility of Genoa and Pisa; Genoa fighting really very piously for the Pope, as well as for herself; Pisa for her own hand, and for the Emperor as much as suited her. The mad little sea falcon never caught sight of another water-bird on the wing, but she must hawk at it; and as an ally of the Emperor, balanced Venice and Genoa with her single strength.
Rossitur, to whose imagination the word suggested nothing but a large water-bird with a long neck. "Ay!" said the doctor. "But it's just as well. You won't want hanging lamps there, and candelabra would hardly be in place either, to hold tallow candles." "Tallow candles!" exclaimed Mrs. Rossitur. Her husband winced, but said nothing.
It was not only bigger than a buzzard, but, at least, three times the size of any one of them. Thus calculated Lucien, and his calculation was not far from the truth. The strange bird then could be no gull. What was it? A swan? No. Its mode of flight answered that question at once. It bore no resemblance whatever to the short rapid flapping of the swan, nor to the flight of any water-bird.
Water-bird colonies are usually situated on islands where the birds are comparatively free from the attacks of natural enemies; hence the question of guarding them resolves itself mainly into the question of keeping people from disturbing the birds during the late spring and summer months. Painted signs will not do this. Men hired for the purpose constitute the only adequate means.
You're a water-bird; and you don't mind a wetting. But for one of my age it's very dangerous." Then he started homeward. Though it was still raining, he tucked his umbrella under his wing, for he was afraid those rude fellows would crowd under it again. And before he had reached his house Mr. Crow had made up his mind about something. Yes! Old Mr. Crow had made up his mind about something.
Three shrill whistles she had blown, about a hundred yards from the gate, had heard the eager crowded bark of her dog in answer, and then Dick went flying over the fields like a water-bird over the lake, that scratches its smooth surface with its feet as it flies. Around the rampart they went. The still night was jubilant around them as they flew.
It is always a matter for guessing when the loon dives, for you can never tell where she will come up. This great diver is a large black-and-white bird, about the size of a goose. The breast is white, head black, and a white ring encircles its black neck. Its beak is long, its legs very short and placed far back on the body. It is essentially a water-bird, and on shore is both slow and awkward.
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