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Besides, the world would be uncharitable enough to hint that you had made away with him: it's what ought to have been done when first he appeared. I give you my word, Ann, he was a positive monster! The object was actually web-footed! web-footed like any frog!" "You must let the police know," said the lady. "That the child is web-footed? No, I think not!" yawned sir Wilton.
Phil, whose attention was all on the wheel of his barrow, which he was trying to steer safely between the cobblestones, did not see a long string of geese waddling down the alley on their way home from the commons, where they had been feeding all day. They came silently along in an awkward, wavering line, as quietly as a procession of web-footed ghosts, until they were almost upon us.
Since entering these southern waters we had remarked the entire absence of sea-gulls, so ever-present on the Atlantic and North Pacific; but the abundance of Mother Carey's Chickens, as the little petrel is called, made up for the absence of the larger birds. It is swallow-like in both its appearance and manner of flight, and though web-footed is rarely seen to light on the water.
It was a fact that the big bird almost fell into the sea, being weakened. The bow of the Kammerboy swept past the struggling creature. Russ and Rose lifted a joined complaint: "Oh, he's drowned! He drowned!" It was true that the bird was not a water-fowl and, as the officer had told the children, could not "roost" on the sea. It was not web-footed, so could not swim.
But no constable but a web-footed one would be out this night. Now do as I say you lay still and give your nerves a rest." For a few moments the order was obeyed. Then Miss Rowes said, with another shiver: "I do believe this is the worst storm I have ever experienced." "'Tis pretty bad, that's a fact.
The joy of Fritz was extreme, to have this beautiful creature alive. He thought at once of curing its wound, and domesticating it with our own poultry. "What splendid plumage!" said Ernest; "and you see he is web-footed, like the goose, and has long legs like the stork; thus he can run as fast on land as he can swim in the water," "Yes," said I, "and fly as quickly in the air.
My father, Leonard Menetrier, kept a cookshop at the sign of Queen Pedauque, who, as everyone knows, wag web-footed like the geese and ducks.
The raft soon drifted into a lagoon, covered with waders and web-footed birds, which scarcely moved as we passed them, and some time was lost before we could regain the course of the stream. At length, guided by the palm-trees, our skiff glided between two banks bordered by trees, the high tops of which sheltered us with their shade.
"Now, what on earth does 'duck' mean, unless you refer to a web-footed species of poultry?" "Prescott was rattled, beyond a doubt, Mr. Cantwell," interposed Coach Morton. "So was I -the time was so short. All I could think of as to call out to you by name." "With the result that I looked your way and lost my row hat," snapped the principal.
"Lookit him bow and scrape asking her something Rats, he's going out in the lobby with her. Walks like a cat on a wet ash-pile. But Oh thunder, he's all right. Neat. I never could mingle with that bunch. I'd be web-footed and butter-fingered. And he seems to know all that bunch bows to every maiden aunt in the shop.
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