It had a head that was a cross between an intelligent antelope and a rather toploftical baby rat.

Its arms were extended at sharp angles, and seemed to be pointing in arch accusation at one.

Wings spread fanwise from the shoulders, and its feet were like the feet of a griffin.
"I never thought it would look just like that, did you, Billie ?" Kit asked confidentially, when they started back to the campus, after the notes on Semele.
"Well, I knew well what to expect, because we've been doing the Smithsonian Institute pretty well," responded Billie, rather knowingly.
"Some of them look worse than that.

But they can't beat our own little Alaskan and Mexican beauties.

I wonder what people were thinking about back in those days to worship that sort of thing ?" But Kit caught sight of five of the girls just rounding the corner after a hike along the shore, and she hailed them, much to Billie's inward disgust.