Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young (1887)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York : John D. Williams · leaf 55
that projectedover the water, by way of warning to the tenants of the moun-tain that danger wasnear; a heron, stand-ing half-leg deep inthe margin of thewater, and seemingto be lost in a lazydream; a pair of har-lequin ducks thatwere swimming nearthe opposite shore;and a bald eagle, thatthe point… … THE HERON. 43 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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