Both were some height in the air and would have
flown over the yacht, when the lark closed his wings and dived straight down, finally settling itself between the bare feet of the observer. There it crouched till the hawk flew out of sight to the north-west. Some five minutes later, failing to weather a point, the yacht was put about and the fluttering of the sail frightened the bird, which flew off to the west. He was nearly out of sight when the hawk returned to the pursuit. Almost exactly the same thing happened for the second time ; and again after an exciting chase the lark dived for the boat, and finally crouched between my feet within, I could swear, half an inch of the same place as before. There it stayed for some twenty minutes, but the light wind brought the boat to her moorings. The sun had set and the lark flew out into the twilight that their tribe peculiarly enjoy."
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