StNicholas [serial] . sparkling feathers,straight through the charmed ring to the lowerair! Here she was caught up by her ownflock. It was Little Americans turn to laughnow, for Kao Chuns picked fliers were left highand dry, his new and young pigeons weremixed with a bigger and better trained flockof Little Americans pigeons, and Tipsy Skewwas safe! At this moment a tientse shot up from KaoChuns roof. Little American, guessing fromits startled flight that his rival had risked anew bird, flung both of his call-birds with it. But the new bird clattered up so boldly thatLittle American saw that h
StNicholas [serial] . sparkling feathers,straight through the charmed ring to the lowerair! Here she was caught up by her ownflock. It was Little Americans turn to laughnow, for Kao Chuns picked fliers were left highand dry, his new and young pigeons weremixed with a bigger and better trained flockof Little Americans pigeons, and Tipsy Skewwas safe! At this moment a tientse shot up from KaoChuns roof. Little American, guessing fromits startled flight that his rival had risked anew bird, flung both of his call-birds with it. But the new bird clattered up so boldly thatLittle American saw that he had again beenoutwitted. Kao Chun had expected his am-bush, and kept back an old high-flier, which,instead of drawing down the flock, carried uphis last call-birds. This held the flock backuntil Kao Chuns fliers pitched down to it, andLittle Americans chance was lost. The rest of the game Kao Chun playedalone. He tossed a pigeon up on his roof,making his flock instantly drop apart from 1900. ] PIGEONS OF PEKING. 323. LITTLE AMERICAN, GUESSING THAT HIS RIVAL HAD RISKED A NEW BIRD, FLUNG BOTH HIS CALL-BIRDS. Little Americans. Then, seeing that his newand young birds had safely followed, hetrained the rest of his new birds, flinging them,one by one, into the flock. Li Loo and LittleAmerican looked on in helpless rage, for theirflock was now shelved, in its turn, and theyhad no call-birds left to bring it down. At last, as a parting flaunt, Little Americanthought, his old Mu Wha Tou, the capturedpigeon, was thrown up. As on the day whenKao Chun had captured her and Little Ameri-can had lost her, Kao Chuns flock gatheredher into their number, swept her to their alight-ing-spot, and the game was done. 324 PIGEONS OF PEKING. [Feb. Third Story,the recapture of mu wha tou. The enemies of the pigeons are three—theweasel, the hawk, and the cat. Of these theweasel is deadliest, for it can work into apigeon-house by the merest crack, and its ruleis to kill all. The hawk is a gallant rob
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