Grace disliked the loon when its voice first disturbed her sleep at the fishing camp; she hated it afterwards.

Swollen with vain pride at their late victory, (the fiend hang the coward loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to make this noble lady serve them barefoot in their camp.

"I don't know what the grouse means by his forests, nor do I know where the eyes of the lark and the gull could have been,' remarked the loon.

Can't you see that you are flying up and down?" shouted a loon as he rushed by.

At most, it tolerates one annual loon.