Word: egret
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Before plovers' eggs were put in a class with egret they, could be eaten (in season) at any smart London restaurant for the genteel price of one guinea ($5.10) per egg. "Plover" in restaurant parlance is a handy name for almost any "wader," vaguely similar to a snipe or sandpiper. The species most common in England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze...
...gain monopoly in any one region) great profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...