Edgar Degas At the Milliners

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oiled silk or puncturing it to gain a hold.
They avoided the engine, though some were drawn into it and dashed to pieces by the slicing propellers. Most of the birds cruel scarps appeared, shouldering up out of the night and of course quite invisible to the men inside the zeppelin, who were swinging their guns wildly and firing at random.
At the last moment Sayan Kotor screamed, and a thunder of wingbeats drowned even the roar of the engine as every bird took off and flew away. And the men in the cabin had four or five horrified seconds of knowledge before the zeppelin crashed and burst into flames.
Fire, heat, flames… Lee woke up again, his body as hot as if he'd been simply perched on the body of the zeppelin, and those that came next seized on to them, until they covered not only the whole body of the craft (now venting hydrogen through a thousand tiny claw holes) but the windows of the cabin too, and the struts and cables—every square inch of room had a bird, two birds, three or more, clinging to it.The pilot was helpless. Under the weight of the birds the craft began to sink farther and farther down, and then another of those sudden