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Baring-Gould Sabine. The Story of Jael
The Story of Jael
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Gull-Fleet
Chapter II: A Pair of Jays
Chapter III: A Jael-Oress
Chapter IV: On the Bridge
Original footnotes
Chapter V: Under the Bridge
Chapter VI: On the 'Cordelia'
Chapter VII: In an Eating-House
Chapter VIII: The Road
Chapter IX: Van Passengers
Chapter X: The Swing Bridge
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Sabine Baring-Gould
Published by Good Press, 2020
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It fluttered about her, using its wings without confidence, for a couple of pin-feathers had been clipped in one, and yet not enough to prevent it from rising and taking a short flight. The white bird hovered, lurched, wheeled over her, casting shadows across her face, and then made a sudden drop and drive at her lips. Instantly, she struck and sent the bird back into the air, and, as the gull screamed with mortification, she laughed joyously. As she laughed the bit of bread fell out of her mouth.
‘Here!’ she called, ‘Jack, here is another. Come, boy, don’t be beaten. Try again. What! Skulking? No, no, Jack! Once more. Ha-hah, old fellow! Supposing some other, and bigger Jacks, some day make a dash at my lips! Sha’n’t I only beat them away? Ay, old bird, with a much rougher stroke than I give you. Psha! I’ve hit away some of your breast feathers, and they are falling about me like snow! Ah—’ she made a stroke with both hands now, and started up—‘you mean, cowardly creature! That was a peck at my eyes! Jack, you might have blinded me! Jack, that was not fair! You do not understand fun. You lose your temper. I had not put the bread between my lips, and was unprepared for you, and down you dive at my eyes. Spite, old bird! Wicked bird! Spite, that! You shall not do that again.’
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