Winking is nothing to it.
The ear normally hangs down behind; the goat turns sideways to her
enemy - by a little knowing cock of the head flicks one ear over
one eye, and squints from behind it for half a minute - tosses her
head back, skips a pace or two further off, and repeats the
manoeuvre. The cook is very fat and cannot run after that goat
much.
'PERNAMBUCO, AUG. 1. - We landed here yesterday, all well and cable
sound, after a good passage. . . . I am on familiar terms with
cocoa-nuts, mangoes, and bread-fruit trees, but I think I like the
negresses best of anything I have seen. In turbans and loose sea-
green robes, with beautiful black-brown complexions and a stately
carriage, they really are a satisfaction to my eye. The weather
has been windy and rainy; the HOOPER has to lie about a mile from
the town, in an open roadstead, with the whole swell of the
Atlantic driving straight on shore. The little steam launch gives
all who go in her a good ducking, as she bobs about on the big
rollers; and my old gymnastic practice stands me in good stead on
boarding and leaving her.
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