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Updated: June 1, 2025
The bugle rang out once more. It was the signal for the competitors to make their appearance. From every shed on the grounds there issued strange birdlike air-craft of different designs in fact only a few of the machines were practicable at all. The others were destined for the scrap-heap.
As he was reading the letter upstairs by sentences, his door opened at the answer to a tap. He started; his face was a shield's welcome to the birdlike applicant for admission. Clotilde stood hesitating. He sent the introducing waiter speeding on his most kellnerish legs, and drew her in. 'Alvan, I have come. She was like a bird in his hands, palpitating to extinction.
"Thanks, fellow," he said softly to the little being on his shoulder. "That's kid's getting to be pretty annoying." "I figured as much," Rat said in his chittering birdlike voice. "And I don't like the way she's been looking at me. She's just the kind of individual who would dump me in a disposal hatch." "Don't worry about it," Alan said.
"This is Miss Prentice, isn't it?" "That's the general impression," Kate answered. Mrs. Pantin registered vivacity by winking rapidly and twittering in a pert birdlike fashion: "I've so much wanted to know you!" The reply that there always had been ample opportunity seemed superfluous, so Kate said nothing.
Presently she heard another call a birdlike whistle and she knew which boy's note it was, and which girl it called out of her home for a sidewalk stroll. She smiled, a trifle sadly, and yet triumphantly. She had enjoyed herself when she was no wiser and looked no higher than the younger Barracks girls, who took up the boys of the neighborhood as if there were no others.
This extraordinary being, without favoring our hero with any word of apology for his intrusion, immediately thrust himself forward into the room, and stretching his long, lean, birdlike neck so as to direct his gaze over the intervening table, fixed a gaping and concentrated stare upon the figure lying still and motionless in the center of the room.
In quieter intervals one heard the birdlike flight of bullets above one's head and the irritated bad temper of the machine-guns.
She half halted and held up her hand for silence, as she listened to "Silver Threads Among the Gold." "That's a dreadful pretty tune, I think," she said. "It used to be awful pop'lar when when I came here to Poketown to teach school." "Mr. Drugg likes it, I guess," said Janice, lightly. "I've heard him play it before." "Have you?" queried Miss 'Rill, with that little birdlike tilt of her head.
As if to accord with his mood, Alice began a sweet birdlike song, full of tender pathos, and of quieting sympathy. It was a quaint Scottish melody, rich in its honeyed meaning, sweetly weird and pitiful; wonderfully soothing and nourishing to a weeping spirit.
After this camp had been located and more gasoline taken aboard the boys were to head their craft toward the Tunit Chas mountains. What would follow they could not foresee. With good luck they might be able to hover birdlike over the peaks, canyons and plateaus for five days. With bad luck they might have to come down sooner or fall.
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