She was fond of feeding dependent creatures, and knew the private tastes of all the animals about the house, delighting in the little rippling sounds of her canaries when their beaks were busy with fresh seed, and in the small nibbling pleasures of certain animals which, lest she should appear too trivial, I will here call "the more familiar rodents.
I see the pelicans with their beaks full of fish gathered from the ever 13)pulsating watery waves And I often wonder what is going on in the vast 14)array of mysterious underwater caves.
At last, they were ready for the great contest, and holding their sacks in their beaks, they flew up into the sky.
" Then she fetched in a bucketful of water, and the cock and hen jumped on to the edge of it and dipped their beaks in, and then held up their heads as the birds do when they drink, and the brindled cow also took a hearty draught.
Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were fighting so savagely with beaks and claws that before long one fell dead to the ground, whilst the conqueror spread his wings and flew away.
Then she fetched a bucketful of water, and the cock and hen jumped on to the edge of it and dipped their beaks in, and then held up their heads as the birds do when they drink, and the brindled cow also took a hearty draught.
" At length the father came to the youngest son: "Thou, my dear chirping nestling, wert always the silliest and weakest;stay with me, the world has many rough, wicked birds which havecrooked beaks and long claws, and lie in wait for poor little birdsand swallow them.
" And verily when he had walked about a hundred paces, he heard in the branches above him such a screaming and twittering that he looked up and saw there a swarm of birds who were tearing a piece of cloth about with their beaks and claws, and tugging and fighting as if each wanted to have it all to himself.
" She dived down with her twelve young ones, and in five minutes she was up again and sat with the crown resting on her wings, and the twelve young ones were swimming round about and had put their beaks under it, and were helping to carry it.
only when they do not drive their beaks in too far; sometimes they go in too deep, quite into my blubber.
"For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, but we sympathize with you quite as much.
"Do not use your beaks so much; it tries the lungs.
" And then they pecked at the bird with their little beaks so that it was impossible for her to get into the nest; she was so exhausted that she couldn't even say "Peep!
He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome.
Eliza laid herself down on the net, and when the sun rose, and her brothers again became wild swans, they took up the net with their beaks, and flew up to the clouds with their dear sister, who still slept.
