wonder-ing

Updated: May 2, 2025

These were the passage-birds the only living creatures that ever crossed the lonely plain; and he had been much interested in them, wonder-ing whence they came and whither they were going. "How nice it must be to be a bird! If legs are no good, why cannot one have wings? People have wings when they die perhaps; I wish I were dead, that I do. I am so tired, so tired; and nobody cares for me.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - The Little Lame Prince