Crossword-Solution: AASVOGEL 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The _aasvogel_ on watch up there far out of the range of man’s vision had seen the deed, and, by sinking downwards, signalled it to his companions that were quartering the sky for fifty miles round; for these birds prey by sight, not by smell.

Presently that something appeared in the shape of an _aasvogel_ which was nearly twice as big as any of the others.

Then—oh horror!—this _aasvogel_ turned quietly, and began to mount the ladder of the sky in the same fashion as it had descended.

You must get behind them, and fire into their tails, for even an _aasvogel_ cannot see with its tail.” I let fall my hands and stared at him.

And yet I have often reflected since that if things had gone differently; if, for instance, that king _aasvogel_ had found strength to carry itself away to die at a distance instead of soaring straight upwards like a towering partridge, as birds injured in the lungs will often do—I suppose in search of air—it might have been better in the end.