Wherever lay a patch of white and yellow flowers or of rough grass no bigger than a prayer rug, a lark soared from its nest singing its jewel-song; and here and there a gentle hoopoo reared the crown which rewarded it for guiding lost King Solomon and his starving army to safety.
"It Happened in Egypt"
C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson
Kate to return to the luxurious home of her aunt, Mrs. van der Kyper of New York, and the Air-and-Grass Man to start for the pampas of Patagonia to hunt the hoopoo.
"The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities"
Stephen Leacock