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Updated: May 11, 2025
Now you emerge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it scarcely has a name; now catch hasty glimpses of a distant town, with its clean white houses and their cool piazzas, its prim New England church and school-house; when whir-r-r-r! almost before you have seen them, comes the same dark screen: the stunted trees, the stumps, the logs, the stagnant water all so like the last that you seem to have been transported back again by magic.
In a moment they both stood steady; and, almost at the same instant, Tom Draw's Dash, and A -'s Grouse come to the point, all on different birds, in a bit of very open ground, covered with wintergreen about knee deep, and interspersed with only a few scattered bushes. Whir-r-r-r up they got all at once! what a jostle what a hubbub! Bang! bang! crack! bang! crack! bang!
Nearer and nearer went Harry, and then pushed the nozzle right in up to the part holding the brimstone, and puffed away as hard as he could. "Whir whooz whooz booz wooz buzz wooz burr urr-r-r-r whir-r-r-r," said the wasps, scuffling out past the nozzle by the dozen; and one, which must have been the leader, made a lodgment in Harry's hair.
One evening, when the artificial bird was singing its best, and the emperor lay in bed listening to it, something inside the bird sounded "whizz." Then a spring cracked. "Whir-r-r-r" went all the wheels, running round, and then the music stopped. The emperor immediately sprang out of bed, and called for his physician; but what could he do?
Simultaneously Honey pounced in her direction from the left. But whir-r-r-r it was like the beating of a tremendous drum. Straight across the pond she went, her toes shirring the water, and up and up and up then off. And all the time she laughed, a delicious, rippling laughter which seemed to climb every scale that could carry coquetry. The two men stood impotently watching her for a moment.
One grand whir-r-r-r went over us, around us, and, in imagination, through us; it took but the sixtieth part of a minute for fifty men to flatten themselves upon the earth and wish they had never gone to the war.
They got on very nicely, only one fine morning, without the slightest warning, whir-r-r-r they all went off to the woods, Jacky and all, and never returned. The remaining bullocks strayed devious, and the douce McLaughlan blandly absorbed the sheep.
It remained on the shore covered with boards, a Noah's ark that never got to the water Whir-r-r-r and that was a pity. "In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast," continued the Wind, "great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship.
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