The girl cried out, but didn't know it, and crouched low; the horn added a squawk of frenzy to a wild clamour of yells; all prefatory to a scrunching, rending crash as, in the very mouth of the gateway, a front fender of the incoming car ripped through the rear fender above which Sofia was sitting.

"And those infernal sea-birds have been squawking along with those thrice-accursed crows ever since day-break.

Queer birds squawked in the thick reeds.

The penguins are not daunted in the least, but their ruffs go up and they squawk with semblance of anger, for all the world as though they were rebuking a rude strangertheir attitude might be imagined to convey 'Oh, that's the sort of animal you are; well, you've come to the wrong placewe aren't going to be bluffed and bounced by you,' and then the final fatal steps forward are taken