When she reached the bank of the little creek where Lofty John's brook ran into Blair Water, she heard piteous shrieks; and there, marooned on a tiny islet of sere marsh grass in the creek, was an unhappy little beast, its soaking fur plastered against its sides, shivering and trembling in the wind of the sharp autumnal day.
Marsh Hawk had scratched him that morning, but worse still his conscience pricked him.
Marsh Hawk, and if he once gets the chance he'll gobble you up, skin, bones and all.
I never thought but you were sunk in the Blackhorse marsh, and missy with you, till master told me you'd been found, and he'd lodged you here!
I want to see where the goblin-hunter rises in the marsh, and to hear about the fairishes, as you call them: but make haste!
You needn't laugh; for I've just crammed Kenneth, head-downmost, in the Black-horse marsh; and two is the same as one—and I want to kill some of you: I shall have no rest till I do!
Thus it happened that the wild animals, jaguars, wild boars, capybaras, koalas, and game of every kind, mad with terror, had fled to the banks of the Mercy and to the Tadorn Marsh, beyond the road to Port Balloon.
"The convicts first landed on the island in the neighborhood of Flotsam Point, and they immediately plunged into the Far West forests, after crossing Tadorn Marsh.
Of Lincoln Island, the settlers knew thoroughly all the eastern coast from Claw Cape to the Mandible Capes, the extensive Tadorn Marsh, the neighborhood of Lake Grant, Jacamar Wood, between the road to the corral and the Mercy, the courses of the Mercy and Red Creek, and lastly, the spurs of Mount Franklin, among which the corral had been established.
They examined all the border of the road, the thick forest, as well as Tabor Marsh.
They had also some fine sporting excursions, which were made during the frost in the vast Tadorn Marsh.
On the 3rd of August an excursion which had been talked of for several days was made into the southeastern part of the island, towards Tadorn Marsh.
Since their departure, the settlers had descended the slopes which constituted the mountain system of the island, on to a dry soil, but the luxuriant vegetation of which indicated it to be watered either by some subterranean marsh or by some stream.
To the left the edge of the marsh was abruptly ended by a little point.
Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope.
From the marsh at the head of the pond came the clear, mournfully-sweet chorus of the frogs.
Marsh tells me she may drop off any day.
'" "Wouldn't you think that would convince Marsh that her mind is affected?
Marsh had given her only six months to live—her lungs were hopelessly diseased.
Marsh?
