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Usage examples of scarecrows.

Since Lau, like many peasants on the Island, grew either the Epp or the Kujave variety, both beardless and consequently an easy prey for birds, the scarecrows had ample opportunity to prove their worth.

Amsel was called in the villages -- building materials into the open: four scarecrows in process of construction, bundles of roofing laths and flower stakes.

But it has to be admitted that for all their aesthetic harmony, for all their refinement of detail and morbid elegance of line, these scarecrows or, as Amsel said, figures, were less impressive than the scarecrows which Eddi Amsel the village schoolboy seems to have built for many years in his native Schiewenhorst, exhibited on the Vistula dikes, and sold at a profit.

One day Brauksel, like Weininger, will be dead, but his hair, toenails, and fingernails will survive him for a time -- just as this handbook on the construction of effective scarecrows will be read long after the writer has gone out of existence.

The two boys gazed blankly -- they had had lots of practice -- from the top of the dune over the row of scarecrows, over the sloping meadow where moles had their dwellings, toward the Matern windmill.

Lau scratched himself under his cap and once again, now slowly and solemnly, passed the seven scarecrows in review, this time in reverse order.

I can ask the kid what one of them scarecrows costs if it costs anything.

Next morning the village mayor had the three scarecrows ferried across the river to Schiewenhorst and planted in his wheat behind the railroad.

On credit balance, what lovely round words: There is a diary in which Amsel, with figures plump and figures angular, entered his receipts from the sale of various scarecrows for garden and field -- eels on udder netted him a whole gulden.

Several pages of the diary show how often and to whom scarecrows were rented.

All the scarecrows in his diary, except for the one with the milk-drinking eels and the other -- half grandmother, half three-headed willow -- are likenesses of men or gods.

Albrecht Achilles to Zieten and from the lees of eastern European history harvested scarecrows to disperse the birds of the heavens.

In the years when Amsel was building and selling scarecrows, they had shuttled restlessly back and forth between Tapiau and Neuteich.

He wants to carry the skull to the Vistula and put it on one of his scarecrows that are still in the framework stage, or if possible on the scarecrow that he has just sketched in the dust.

Will it be possible to carry this book, dealing with Walter Matern, the dog Senta, the Vistula, Eduard Amsel, and his scarecrows, to a conclusion?