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"A what-cock?" asked Slagg, who afterwards described the noise to be like the flapping of a mainsail. "A pay-cock. Splendid aitin'. Fire, avic!" "What! fire at that?" cried Slagg, as a creature of enormous size and gorgeous plumage rose above the bushes. "Ye must be jokin'. I couldn't fire at that."
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
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