`` Shiny Wall ? Do you want Shiny Wall ? Then come with us , and we will show you . We are Mother Carey 's own chickens , and she sends us out over all the seas , to show the good birds the way home . '' Tom was delighted , and swam off to them , after he had made his bow to the Gairfowl . But she would not return his bow : but held herself bolt upright , and wept tears of oil as she sang : `` And so the poor stone was left all alone ; With a fal-lal-la-lady . '' But she was wrong there ; for the stone was not left all alone : and the next time that Tom goes by it , he will see a sight worth seeing . The old Gairfowl is gone already : but there are better things come in her place ; and when Tom comes he will see the fishing-smacks anchored there in hundreds , from Scotland , and from Ireland , and from the Orkneys , and the Shetlands , and from all the Northern ports , full of the children of the old Norse Vikings , the masters of the sea . And the men will be hauling in the great cod by thousands , till their hands are sore from the lines ; and they will be making cod-liver oil and guano , and salting down the fish ; and there will be a man-of-war steamer there to protect them , and a lighthouse to show them the way ; and you and I , perhaps , shall go some day to the Allalonestone to the great summer sea-fair , and dredge strange creatures such as man never saw before ; and we shall hear the sailors boast that it is not the worst jewel in Queen Victoria 's crown , for there are eighty miles of codbank , and food for all the poor folk in the land . That is what Tom will see , and perhaps you and I shall see it too . And then we shall not be sorry because we can not get a Gairfowl to stuff , much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them , as the old Norsemen did , or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them , as the old English and French rovers used to do , of whom dear old Hakluyt tells : but we shall remember what Mr. Tennyson says : how `` The old order changeth , giving place to the new , And God fulfils himself in many ways . '' And now Tom was all agog to start for Shiny Wall ; but the petrels said no . They must go first to Allfowlsness , and wait there for the great gathering of all the sea-birds , before they start for their summer breeding-places far away in the Northern Isles ; and there they would be sure to find some birds which were going to Shiny Wall : but where Allfowlsness was , he must promise never to tell , lest men should go there and shoot the birds , and stuff them , and put them into stupid museums , instead of leaving them to play and breed and work in Mother Carey 's water-garden , where they ought to be . So where Allfowlsness is nobody must know ; and all that is to be said about it is , that Tom waited there many days ; and as he waited , he saw a very curious sight . On the rabbit burrows on the shore there gathered hundreds and hundreds of hoodie-crows , such as you see in Cambridgeshire . And they made such a noise , that Tom came on shore and went up to see what was the matter . And there he found them holding their great caucus , which they hold every year in the North ; and all their stump-orators were speechifying ; and for a tribune , the speaker stood on an old sheep 's skull . And they cawed and cawed , and boasted of all the clever things they had done ; how many lambs ' eyes they had picked out , and how many dead bullocks they had eaten , and how many young grouse they had swallowed whole , and how many grouse-eggs they had flown away with , stuck on the point of their bills , which is the hoodie-crow 's particularly clever feat , of which he is as proud as a gipsy is of doing the hokany-baro ; and what that is , I wo n't tell you . And at last they brought out the prettiest , neatest young lady-crow that ever was seen , and set her in the middle , and all began abusing and vilifying , and rating , and bullyragging at her , because she had stolen no grouse-eggs , and had actually dared to say that she would not steal any . So she was to be tried publicly by their laws -LRB- for the hoodies always try some offenders in their great yearly parliament -RRB- .
And there she stood in the middle , XXXXX her black gown and gray hood , looking as meek and as neat as a Quakeress , and they all bawled at her at once - And it was in vain that she pleaded - That she did not like grouse-eggs ; That she could get her living very well without them ; That she was afraid to eat them , for fear of the gamekeepers ; That she had not the heart to eat them , because the grouse were such pretty , kind , jolly birds ; And a dozen reasons more .
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