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And although he was born in captivity, the property of a mahout, in his first hour he heard the far-off call of the wild elephants in the jungle. The Burmans, just like the other people of India, always watch the first hour of a baby's life very closely. They know that always some incident will occur that will point, as a weather-vane points in the wind, to the baby's future.
Imagine this crowning the comely severity of the solid Moorish structure without a projecting ornament! But this is not all. Swinging in gaunt uneasiness over the whole, stands a huge revolving statue, supposed to represent Faith, holding out in one hand a shield which catches the wind, and causes it to act as a weather-vane.
It seemed within speaking distance in that rare atmosphere, though several miles intervened. After a while sounds of metal striking ice came from a point around the buttress; Banks was cutting steps. Then, following a silence, he appeared. But, on coming into the sunny westward exposure, he stopped, and with two fingers raised like a weather-vane, stood gazing down the canyon.
Apparently there was, for the child, untucking the doll from beneath her right arm and tucking it under the left, pointed her right hand at a wooden weather-vane in the shape of a sperm whale and asked: "Please, does that fish go 'round?" "Go 'round? Go 'round where?" "I mean does it go 'round and 'round on a stick?" "Cal'late it does when it has a chance."
His head, with its bright yellow eye and long yellow beak glistening in the morning light, veered and swung over his long neck like a gilded weather-vane on a steeple. As the vane swung up the shore toward me I held my breath, so as to be perfectly motionless, thinking I was hidden so well that no eye could find me at that distance.
"An' didn' I never tell you 'bout de chicken hawk as busted his knuckles all up tryin' to fly off wid de weather-vane down on de stable dar?" "Oh, no, Uncle Zack! But tell me 'bout mine, first!" The old negro stopped stock still and looked down with a frown. "You'se de mos' pestiferistes' pusson on dis heah place!"
I'm to have three sons and one daughter, and my luck will come to me through running water when the weather-vane points west." Kitty pointed to several pencil scratches beside the tea leaf, intended to signify a brook and a weather-vane on a steeple. "What did she say about Betty?" asked Gay. Kitty studied the next line of hieroglyphics a moment. "Oh, I see now. I intended this for a ship.
"Cook says she heard the weather-vane creaking ever since she went upstairs after dinner, and now it's stopped; and she can hear Goldie a-myowling like anything." "Is cook in her attic?" asked Mrs Ebag. "Yes'm." "Ask her to come out. Mr Ullman, will you be so very good as to come upstairs and investigate?"
It is said that for a very small sum, the sexton would allow boys to climb up and ring the bells as much as they liked; and, on the day of Queen Mary's coronation, she saw a Dutchman standing on the weather-vane, waving a flag." "My! I'd like to have seen that!" cried John, to whom such gymnastic feats appealed. While they walked back to the Cheshire Cheese, Mrs. Pitt explained to them what St.
She slipped out of bed and walked to and fro, holding her aching head with both hands. Finally she leaned on the window-sill, watching the still weather-vane on Alice's barn and breathing in the fragrance of the ripening apples, until her restlessness subsided under the clear starry beauty of the night.
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