Frank the Heron 
make; and though I rather like live 
oysters, still, oysters don’t wriggle and 
kick, which makes all the difference, but 
submit to their fate with becoming 
resignation. The eel, however, was by 
no means resigned, and made a gallant 
struggle, for it presently began to wriggle 
wp the neck again, until presently I saw 
its tail reappear out of Frank’s beak ; 
a second time it was gulped down with 
much difficulty, and a second time it 
worked its painful way up again, and it 
was not finally disposed of until this 
process had been gone through four 
times. Even then I thought I could 
see internal movements which seemed 
to suggest that the unequal struggle was 
still going on. 
Sometimes, again, Frank will catch 
the water-rats as they swim past him, 
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