Excerpt from The Way of the Wild
Verily, this was no beast he would have taped four feet and a quarter from tip to tip, if you had worn chain-mail and dared to measure him no beast, I say, to handle with white-kid ball gloves. Things were possible from him, one felt, that were not possible of any other living creature awful things.
Suddenly he looked up. The branches above him had stirred uneasily, as if an army were asleep there. And an army was - of wood - pigeons. Thousands upon thousands of wood-pigeons were asleep above his head, come from Heaven knows where, going to who could tell in the end?
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