Part 66 (2/2)
”And old 'My pakeha' wouldn't knohere to find us I say, Mas' Don, what are we going to do? Stop here with these people, and old Too on at once and shi+ft for ourselves?”
”We cannot shi+ft for ourselves in a country like this without so food”
”Hush!+” exclai for the inner part of their hiding-place
”No, no; don't do that It's all right, Mas' Don, only don't say anything more about food I feel just now as if I could eat you It's horrid how hungry I am”
”You see then,” said Don, ”how helpless we are”
”Yes; if it was only a biscuit I wouldn'tto eat here, nor nothing to drink”
They stood leaning against the rocky wall, not caring to risk sitting down on account of the foul air, and not daring to go to the ested that they should steal there cautiously, and lie doith their faces beyond the cavern floor
This they did, glad of the restful change; but hours passed and no soundsfrom the interior of the cave, and the harsh screech of some parrot or cockatoo
Every time a louder hiss than usual came from the interior, Jehter, in spite of Don's severely reproachful looks; but in every case Je to suppress his hilarity proved to be too hed heartily and well
It is a curious fact, one perhaps which doctors can explain, and it seeht be supposed that when any one was hungry he would feel low-spirited, but all the sa around the sufferer see sets hie noith Je past, they lay there at theat the recollection of the sailor's fright, now at the cries of so round a large tree, whose hold on the steep rocky side of the ravine was precarious in the extreme
The presence of white people seereatest of wonder, and to pique his curiosity, and after a flit here and a flit there, he invariably came near and sat upon a bare branch, from which he could study the aspect of the two intruders
He was a lovely-looking bird as far as the tints of the plue went; but his short hooked beak, with a tuft of feathers each side, and forward curved crest, gave hihted Je and chattering at thereatest excitement
”Look at his starshers, Mas' Don,” said Jem, as the bird's side tufts half covered the beak and then left it bare ”Look at his hair, too
Hasn't he brushed it up in a point? There, he heared what I said, and has laid it down again Look at him! Look at him! Did you ever see such a ru its head on one side for a good look, and then on the other, so as to inspect, theain a little e from a fresh point of view, and to effect this turned itself co by its soft yoke toes, and playing what Jeame of _peep-to_!
This lasted for soh in a noran to chatter
”Hark at hi names There, hit me if he didn't Did you hear him?”
”I heard hi us that 'My pakeha--my pakeha!' that he did”
”Nonsense!”
”Ah, you e birds Wonderful what they knows and what they says”
”I don't believe they knohat they say, Jem”