Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry (1844)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York, Wiley & Putnam · leaf 55
ver the water, by way of warning to the tenants of the moun-tain that danger waanear; a heron, stand-ing half-leg deep inthe margin of thewater, arid seemingto be lost in a lazydream; a pair of har-lequin ducks thatwere swimming nearthe opposite shore;and a bald eagle, thatstood upon the pointof a… … THE HERON. -K5 time; but we felt it deeply, and memory,to me, has kept a faithful transcript of thathour. We had not advanced far, when, on pass-ing through some bushes near a heap ofrocks, I heard a rustling in the leaves.
Children's stories, American
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