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In a cage of wire netting bearing the legend, “The Roc—The Egg,” the uncomfortable gander swayed and craned his neck; and all but his voice was satisfactory. In the bottom of the cage a whitewashed stone the size of a small pumpkin did duty as the egg.,Dough when Mother bakes the bread,,“Come here, boy,” called a very stout gentleman, the cross merchant who owned the “Sea Mew.”,"I assure you he told me nothing. But I am as clever as Battersea, and can put two and two together. Next day Battersea went to Etwald, did he not, and tried to blackmail him, but this clever doctor compelled him to keep silent.",“I came up after that job we were talking about the other day.”,When he demanded it the boys showed him the island in the low grounds on which they had grown the test crop of corn.,For a time all went well, but soon Jerry said in a whisper—somehow the dark made him whisper rather than speak aloud—“I can’t touch the roof any more, can you?”,"What is it?",“No, Mosey, I must hurry and get some flowers fer school to-day.”,But to the hill of Carrickdhuve, to sit alone and gaze in loving silence on the heaven-born grandeur of earth and sky and sea, comes Mona Scully no more forever.,David shook his head.,"And three-quarters. Don't deceive yourself, my dear fellow: they can't be here one moment before a quarter to eight.".