More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, Alfred Henry, comp · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 260
ducks, in large quantities—not a bird among thempinioned ; wild enough to startle anybody, as they rise withresounding quacks from beyond the fringing bullrushes, and thenfly farther on, or back to one of the higher ponds ; or, tired ofexercising their paddles on these home waters, take bolder… … 22g 2;0 Xongleat clear place suggests a dive. Lower down, swans manoeuvre inthe open water, and herons lazily flap to and fro, with a purpose :extracting the big anodons from the mud, and bearing them offin triumph to the seclusion of a tree, there to snip the shells withtheir strong wedged beaks…
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