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"My word! if I
haven't to count the young ones every ten minutes, to see they are not
flying away among the buzzards, or the ducks. Why do ye all keep
hovering round the rock, like lolloping reptiles in the spring, when
the heavens are beginning to be alive with birds, man. D'ye think
mouths can be filled, and hunger satisfied, by laziness and sleep!"
"You'll have your say, Eester," said the husband, using the provincial
pronunciation of America for the name, and regarding his noisy
companions, with a look of habitual tolerance rather than of
affection. "But the birds you shall have, if your own tongue don't
frighten them to take too high a flight. Ay, woman," he continued,
standing on the very spot whence he had so rudely banished Ellen,
which he had by this time gained, "and buffaloe too, if my eye can
tell the animal at the distance of a Spanish league."
"Come down; come down, and be doing, instead of talking. A talking man
is no better than a barking dog. I shall hang out the cloth, if any of
the red-skins show themselves, in time to give you notice.


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